Autumn Peltier loves the water of her home and said she sees personhood there. To take "it" the pronoun away, to refuse to use it for water as Peltier has, may leave a hole for understanding the other earthly entities as alive and equal.
Who really are our grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins?
Our family speaks, but we do not look or listen... to them.
The use of it has done this. Earth, water, animal, air - do we care?
Assessing what is alive and dead, what is equal and subservient, has brought great weaknesses to modern thinking. To use it to objectify lives lessens respect, weakens our own emotional intelligence and cognitive sensibilities.
Who really are our grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins?
Our family speaks, but we do not look or listen... to them.
The use of it has done this. Earth, water, animal, air - do we care?
Assessing what is alive and dead, what is equal and subservient, has brought great weaknesses to modern thinking. To use it to objectify lives lessens respect, weakens our own emotional intelligence and cognitive sensibilities.
