Viewing humans as separate from nature enables resource exploitation without conscience.

Evidence

Both Ermine (1995) and Little Bear (2000) caution against the adverse influence of Western and Eurocentric worldviews, as they stand in direct opposition to widely held Indigenous understandings that humanity exists in a web of relations with all other living and non-living beings. If one sees themselves as a distinct entity—set apart from other forms of life—then one can compartmentalize and justify the use of resources—rocks, minerals, plants, animals, water, and air—as consumable for themselves without crisis of conscience. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1009

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s foundational theme of relationality vs atomism — e.g., isolated facts blocking political connection in marxist theory notes, and the soundscape work on the keynoting relational character of perception. — connects to: Separating nature from value stripped humans of intrinsic worth too — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 399; Humans are constituted by their social relations rather than an intrinsic essence — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517; Dene land relations frame reciprocal obligations between humans and nonhumans. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 243 (+7 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans #expands (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 703
• Separating nature from value stripped humans of intrinsic worth too #expands (0.80) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 399
• Humans are constituted by their social relations rather than an intrinsic essence #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517
• Dene land relations frame reciprocal obligations between humans and nonhumans. #contradicts (0.70) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 243