Title: Interconnectedness: an Overlooked Solution to the Environmental Crisis – IONS
Headings: Interconnectedness: an Overlooked Solution to the Environmental Crisis
Interconnectedness: an Overlooked Solution to the Environmental Crisis
The Illusion of Separation
How the Illusion of Separation Has Fueled the Environmental Crisis
Embodying Interconnectedness: an Overlooked Solution
How Embodying Interconnectedness Can Address the Environmental Crisis
A New Way of Being

Content: Our society operates within a worldview that sees humans as individuals separate from one another and separate from the Earth. This worldview is more than just the story we tell ourselves about who we are. It is a predominant way of being that informs, shapes, and manifests our actions, our beliefs, the systems that organize society, and the way we relate to each other as well as our environment. And it has destructive consequences. How the Illusion of Separation Has Fueled the Environmental Crisis
When we view ourselves as separate from the Earth, we can more easily justify exploiting it for our personal gain. We see it as an object existing solely as a means to our own short-term benefit. We relate to its living systems as resources for us to use, manipulate, and dispose of when they’re no longer of use. We then start to see the Earth as having value only insofar as it can serve us and our interests. This further justifies its exploitation and destruction. For Pachamama Alliance’s Indigenous partners in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, the impact of the illusion of separation on the Earth is abundantly clear.