There is also the matter of creating and maintaining a web of interdependence, collaboration and appreciation. Robert Macfarlane (2019, p. 113) can once again be our teacher in this regard:
“f there is human meaning to be made of the wood wide web, it is’ surely that what might save us as we move forwards into the precarious, unsettled centuries ahead is collaboration: mutualism, symbiosis, the inclusive human work of collective decision-making extended to more-than-human communities. You look at the network, and then it starts to look back at you. Writing of mycorrhizal fungi, Albrecht proposes that we rechristen the Anthropocene, naming it instead the Symbiocene – an epoch characterized in terms of social organization ‘by human intelligence that replicates the symbiotic and mutually reinforcing life reproducing forms and processes found in living systems … such as the wood wide web.”
As noted in the title of an Ursula LeGuin (1984) novel, the word for world is forest. And the word for the world of human beings as social animal is Mutualism (Macfarlane, 2019, p. 97)
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