The ecological crisis is fundamentally a crisis in learned patterns of thought
Evidence
Thus, a primary premise guiding this book is that the ecological crisis is really a cultural crisis—that is, a crisis in the way people have learned to think and thus behave in relation to larger life systems and toward each other. It can be shifted if we learn to think differently about our relationships to each other and to the natural world, and if we help students to identify and revalue those critical practices of mutual support and interdependence that still exist in communities all over the world. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 227
Categorization
- DEFINE: The book’s central premise: ecology = culture. Exactly what a teacher-education companion to Bowers needs as its operating assumption.
- XREF: Directly transmits Bowers’ thesis that taken-for-granted language/culture underlies ecological exploitation — ties this textbook to the reader’s theoretical companion text. — connects to: Taken-for-granted language reproduces value hierarchies and centric thinking — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 124; Environmental crisis roots are epistemological, ethical, and political, a crisis of ideas — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 654; Economic crises are also conceptual and intellectual catastrophes — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 45 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Economic crises are also conceptual and intellectual catastrophes
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 45 - Modernity’s core crisis is epistemological, not merely material or environmental
#corroborates(0.85) - Shifting metaphors can shift thought and behavior toward sustainability.
#expands(0.80) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 502 - Ecological crisis is systemic to modernity, not contingent
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