A person who supports the idea of the Symbionment (the organic and symbiotic interconnections of life that we are active participants in), through active engagement with others and creative acts that promote sumbiosity in the form of ecoculture, ecoagriculture, ecotechnologies and ecodesign in all aspects of our lives. Through sumbiosic development, we maintain our connections within the symbionment and help create The Symbiocene.
We have now got rid of some very difficult concepts that are part of the reason why we have failed to achieve the end state we have historically called sustainability.
An environmentalist = no wonder it is a word that generates disagreement in people. There is no such thing as 'the environment' (see below) so there cannot be an environmentalist!
The environment
= if it is defined as all that is outside us, then the fact that the
environment is also inside us and that we are inside the environment invalidates
its common use as a concept.
Sustainability = has always implied a degree of
stability, even rigidity in the human-nature relationship. Sumbiosity by
contrast implies process and creative change ... just as we see in natural
systems governed by the rules of entropy, evolution and ecology.
Sustainable
Development = yes,
it was always a dangerous oxymoron. Sumbiosic Development, by contrast, only
permits those forms of development that promote endlessly creative sumbiosity.
The
Anthropocene = time
for this era to end before we do ourselves and the rest of the Earth's biota
in.
