1/ In pagan cultures, people kept alive a sense of divine partnership between humanity and nature. Rituals were held routinely to fortify the bond between people and trees, rivers, earth and sky.

2/ An early dispensation of Christendom destroyed that sacred connection, calling it blasphemous & replacing it with the idea that God had given earth to man to use for his utilitarian purposes. That split was for all intents and purposes the beginning of our environmental crisis

3/ The attitudinal and philosophical split between humanity and nature has caused extraordinary damage not only to nature but also to ourselves. The industrialized, rationalistic and materialistic perspectives of the 20th C fortified the split and did tremendous collective harm.

4/ The 21st C has brought a reckoning with a worldview so out of alignment with who we truly are, as well as a rebirth of understanding that a purely material explanation of the world will never satisfy either the needs or longings of the human race. It is time for repair & reset

Everything you say makes so much sense & reminds me of pleading with everyone I knew to think and be this way, only to have the shit beaten out of me by culture, which fed us 'reality is actually grim' message which filled 00s and 10s. Listening to your optimism makes me mad 1/

at myself and we're all honestly too broken down to hope without just wondering if it is yet another cruel prank that ends in nothing. But you are correct. You are especially correct about nurturance and coexistence. I salute your courage while still acknowledging my cynicism