Honestly, for me it’s Sarah Hrty. She’s done some really good research on alloparenting. She’s been basically saying that it’s literally in our genes to help eachother out. Because survival isn’t just self-preservation, it’s survival of the pack, or community for us naked apes.

A question in this article that I feel is important. “Has social ecology been eclipsed in ecological anarchism? Should it be revived?”

Partially, yes and absolutely yes. In my honest opinion, it’s a great shame that some other anarchistic eco-currents (like anarcho-primitivism, rewilding, and now solarpunk-ish movements) have sometimes pushed Bookchin aside, finding social ecology too rationalist. Its insight, that we need communal, decentralized, directly democratic solutions to ecological collapse, is more relevant than ever. Maybe today it needs to be expanded. Maybe we make it more pluralistic, more attuned to Indigenous knowledges, more experimental. But its core spirit absolutely deserves revival.

This is very insightful. I’m really interested, are there any books or otherwise sources that helped you draw this conclusion? It makes a whole lot of sense, I guess I was kind of ignoring that possibility.

Yea, I skimmed through the comments. Yikes. Really just proves my point that they take these criticisms like a shot to the chest.

Alls I’m saying folks, I’m not done until I’m six feet deep in the ground.