Nature is a tricky term. It can refer to the quality of things, to what moves things into existence or to the world as a whole. Read and heard, from political debate to food labelling, it is in constant use: back to nature, 100% natural, natural order, unnatural acts, natural ways of living, wisdom of nature, natural remedies. Despite taking propolis when I get a cough and enjoying organic food, I’m critically suspicious of the term – the concept of Nature is often used to backup moral stand points, as a device for legitimization, claiming and appealing to an external truth as a reference point.
An ecology without Nature: In the first chapter of Facing Gaia, ‘On the instability of the (notion of) nature’, Bruno Latour responds to the contemporary urgency of climate change. The Earth’s population is facing a mutated relationship with the world, laden with growing concern and dramatic outcomes. ‘Ecology drives people crazy’, claims Latour. This intense reaction can be seen as an appropriate response to the impassivity and the astonishing calm that has characterized the last thirty years, where the hegemonic class did nothing, despite various warnings, to change the economic trend that made the environmental situation so bleak….
https://www.eurozine.com/careless-mothers-sterile-goddesses-and-ungrateful-offspring/
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