Nature matrix: reconnecting people and nature
Nature matrix: reconnecting people and nature
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自然矩阵：重新连接人与自然
DOI：
10.1017/s0030605303000383
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发表时间：
2003
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
R. Pyle
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作者：
R. Pyle
许多个人和社会不再以确保可持续未来的方式与超越人类的世界相联系。随着这种联系的减少，环境挑战成倍增加，疏远的影响加剧。我回顾了与地方和生物的直接、亲密接触对年轻人态度的重要性，以及亲生命的重要性。失去联系和随后的疏远的结果是经验的消失：断绝联系、冷漠和逐渐耗尽的不可阻挡的循环。我描述了证明这种效果的努力。小型、简陋的栖息地，尤其是在城市环境中，对于唤醒热爱生命的人来说，与大型保护区一样重要。由于栖息地的丧失、虚拟体验取代实际体验的兴起、经济不平等和人口过剩，生物恐惧症进一步加剧了灭绝和不满情绪的螺旋式下降。目前全球企业增长的氛围不利于可持续发展，目前的生态文盲状况也是如此。因此，为了解决经济不平等问题，必须进行彻底的变革，朝着最小化所有权而不是最大化消费主义的方向发展，并进行教育改革，将自然置于课程的中心而不是边缘。我提出了一个名为“自然矩阵”的六点计划，用于替代社会和道德范式。 《自然矩阵》并不是一个针对近期的务实计划，而是一个基本的渐进变革的模型，一个梦想，其最终采用可能会增加重新连接和生态生存本身的机会：目前，前景非常不确定。
Many individuals and societies are no longer connected to the more-than-human world in such a way as to ensure a sustainable future. As such connection has diminished, environmental challenges have multiplied and influences for estrangement intensified. I review the importance of direct, intimate encounter with places and organisms on the attitudes of the young, as well as the significance of biophilia. The result of the loss of contact and subsequent alienation is the Extinction of Experience: an inexorable cycle of disconnection, apathy, and progressive depletion. I describe an effort to demonstrate this effect. Small, humble habitats, especially in urban settings, can be as important as big reserves in awakening biophilia. Biophobia, abetted by the loss of such habitats, the rise of the virtual in place of actual experience, economic inequalities, and overpopulation, further feeds the downward spiral of extinction and disaffection. The climate of global corporate growth that now prevails is inimical to sustainability, as is the current state of ecological illiteracy. Radical change is therefore necessary to address both economic disparity, in the direction of minimal ownership rather than maximum consumerism, and educational reform that places nature at the centre rather than the margin of the curriculum. I present a six-point programme, called Nature Matrix, for an alternative social and ethical paradigm. Rather than a pragmatic plan for the near future, Nature Matrix is a model for essential, incremental change, a dream whose eventual adoption may enhance chances for reconnection and for ecological survival itself: at present, a deeply uncertain prospect.