An excerpt from the book with the same title.

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?

There is no truly primordial woodland in England: every square foot of woodland in the country has been managed, in some sense, at some time. The best we can claim is “semi-natural ancient woodland” – by definition land that has been forested since at least the 17th century, and only lightly managed since then.

Interesting! But here in Sweden we do have primordial woodland which we ought to be very careful with. 😔

Web review of Ervin

From Bouncepaw’s links:

It actually makes the case that CO₂ is the dominant control on Earth’s temperature

[Rewilding is] a fundamentally cheerful and workmanlike approach to what can seem insoluble problems. It doesn’t micromanage. It creates room for “ecological processes [which] foster complex and self-organizing ecosystems.” Rewilding puts into practice what every good manager knows: hire the best people you can, provide what they need to thrive, then get out of the way. It’s the opposite of command-and-control.

It’s pretty difficult to build an economy without plundering the Earth for fossil fuels, metals or stone. Soviet’s economy was built on that, as is the AANES, as is every capitalist economy ever.

But it is possible. We can discover the wonders of nature. Here’s one example based on symbiosis between mycorrhiza fungi and pine trees:

NRW.Plus bietet weitreichende Informationen zur Klimaentwicklung, Klimafolgen und zur Klimaanpassung.

Fungi are found throughout the world, often playing critical roles at the center of all ecological webs.

Lecture by author, social theorist, and environmentalist Murray Bookchin titled “The Ecology Movement: Utopia or Technocracy?” delivered as part of the 1978 Towards Tomorrow event at the University of Massachusetts. Bookchin talks about the current and future state of the ecology movement. He defines the ecology movement as another name for technology and states that the movement is losing its perspective of the word “utopia.”