Indigenous relationality or a world of mere stuff?

Justice, culture, and relationships: Australian Indigenous prescription for planetary health - Matthews et al

"In Australia, the oldest surviving cultures have adapted their ecological knowledge over millennia and across climatic ages. However, European colonization has severely curtailed Indigenous peoples’ ability to adjust to climate change."

"Colonization, capitalism, and climate change all reflect the continued dominance of Western individualistic (“egocentric”) philosophies that place humans above and separate from their environment, commodifying and exploiting the environment for power and profits. By contrast, the collectivistic (“ecocentric”) Indigenous cultures focus on deep, holistic connections to the environment in which valuable knowledge systems have developed from careful custodianship through which ecosystems flourished over millennia."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh9949
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