This is Not an Ecosystem

in #ecology6 years ago (edited)

This is not an ecosystem...

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It used to look something like this...

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These people used to live there...

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And these people...

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And these people...

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This is not stewardship of an ecosystem...

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But this is stewardship...

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And this is stewardship...

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This is not stewardship of an ecosystem...

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But this is stewardship...

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And this gal gets to live there...

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This is not a forest...

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It kills her...

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Because this is the mouth of the Eel river...

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And it kills her...

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Because of something like this...

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So we can have this...

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This is not stewardship of ecosystems or the beings within them...

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But this man was a steward of ecosystems and the beings within them...

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He caused her to increase so he could eat her...

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This man aims to be a steward of ecosystems and the beings within them because he's a hunter...

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Is this dependence or dominance of nature and the beings within them...

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Is this dependence or dominance of nature and the beings within them...

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We can eat this and contribute to the extinction of species...

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And this...

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We can eat this and contribute to the restoration of species...

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And this...

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Does what you eat actually steward ecosystems and the beings within them, or only claim to...

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Does what i eat actually steward ecosystems and the beings within them, or only claim to...

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Is what's ethical and ecologically sound a matter of animal stock versus agricultural crops?

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Or a matter of ecosystem regeneration versus ecosystem degradation?

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Are we stewards, students, and dependents of primarily human made systems? Or stewards, students, and dependents of the more than human lifeworld of which we are a part?

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