The Earth doesn’t need us at all, it certainly doesn’t need us to awaken. It needs us to pay attention, to get involved, and to become ecologically literate.
If people need to have woowoo spiritualism to appreciate nature, let them IMHO. Its better than people destroying ecosystems. The only real concern I have is people ignoring people as part of that ecosystem or infantalizing other parts.
I would rather people respect that they have immense power, and thus responsibility, but also so can the rest of nature and thus responsibility.
You know chastise racoons, train dogs, listen to the birds, carry the spiders you like to better homes, kill with gratitude and understanding, give back when you can, etc, etc.
Its the tougher one for sure. By that I mean anything from euthinasia for pets, killing pests, self defense or defense of pets/livestock and even hunting which can help balance a population of area to the lands resources plus feed others.
Determining pests and which animals are overpopulated takes serious consideration as well and even after determining that extermination is basically never an option for me, even for most “invasive species”. Bradford pairs are my exception lol, but even if I could snap and wipe them out of the area tommorow I wouldn’t. The rest of the creatures need time to adjust to things too.
“Healthy respect” is still my go-to
If people need to have woowoo spiritualism to appreciate nature, let them IMHO. Its better than people destroying ecosystems. The only real concern I have is people ignoring people as part of that ecosystem or infantalizing other parts.
I would rather people respect that they have immense power, and thus responsibility, but also so can the rest of nature and thus responsibility. You know chastise racoons, train dogs, listen to the birds, carry the spiders you like to better homes, kill with gratitude and understanding, give back when you can, etc, etc.
I was mostly nodding along to your post until the “kill with gratitude and understanding”: what? how does one do that? Who do you apply that to?
Its the tougher one for sure. By that I mean anything from euthinasia for pets, killing pests, self defense or defense of pets/livestock and even hunting which can help balance a population of area to the lands resources plus feed others.
Determining pests and which animals are overpopulated takes serious consideration as well and even after determining that extermination is basically never an option for me, even for most “invasive species”. Bradford pairs are my exception lol, but even if I could snap and wipe them out of the area tommorow I wouldn’t. The rest of the creatures need time to adjust to things too.