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INCLUSIVITY
Why Is Inclusivity Such a Stupid No-Go in Environmental Work?
Hierarchy is blinding us
As an educator in environmental science, I am often surprised about many things. People have complete blinders on. They cannot see that one thing is the same as the other. Nature is of course US. We have natural bodies and minds.
Humans are born out of nature.
So many people are blinded by hierarchy and the walls between subjects and sectors. Was that what the Babylonian Tower was all about?
People do not see how we can design good solutions when we start redesigning economies and societies with the fact that we ARE nature. We UNDERSTAND more about nature nowadays. And we often just FEEL nature in our bones.
After all, we are spinning at 1037 miles an hour through the universe with our feet glued to a rock. And we can design very good solutions with those insights.
An example of the blinders?
People ask me: health? You are now talking about health. But just a minute ago you were talking about the environment. What? How? I don’t understand the connection. And then, I patiently explain again. Health is not just medicine. We have an intelligent body. And she is influenced by the environment.
