some day i'm going to read braiding sweetgrass and get really mad at it

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some day i'm going to read braiding sweetgrass and get really mad at it
i'm pretty deeply skeptical of the contrast it seems to draw between """western""" science and indigenous knowledge, and i think a lot of the claims it makes about euroamerican colonialism are too grounded in weird culture-essentialist difference ("the west is Fundamentally Arrogant, indigenous cultures are Fundamentally Humble") which i a. don't believe and b. don't agree with the implicit value system of. this is all based on screencaps and excerpts, tbc, i have not read the book, but if i ever do i know how it's gonna make me feel lmao
fair enough, though later chapters are more dedicated to pointing out how capitalism and environmentalism cannot coexist, rather than being about cultural essentialism. it also talked about how western environmentalism (for many years) was about how humans cannot interact with nature to be pristine, but this is countered with stories and research of human involvement being beneficial for human diversity. i think the claims about euroamerican colonialism were more about it being colonialism than it being euroamerican. (granted i read it last year and was not focusing on that)
same, looking forward to the false dilemma of cartesian dualism and animism in particular