I have a tendency to sound like a Polly-Anna. Perhaps what I wrote last night sounds a bit like "happy talk." When I read this quote this morning, however, I was reminded by my intent, i.e. my idea of the individual finding a personal connection as a starting point for considering the "global nature"...
More and more, as members of global postindustrial economies, we are in close ethical proximity with people, communities, nonhuman species and ecosystems that are very distant from us, geographically, affectively and epistemically. Our lives are so emeshed with the lives of distant people, place, plants and animals that it is ridiculous to even pretend that we have an emotional or epistemic connection with our mortal worlds. We are members of economic and environmental communities too large, too diverse to even imagine.
What might it mean to promote the good of a community you cannot even hold in your imagination? (Cuomo, 2003, p. 97)
So perhaps we start with the connections we can hold in our imaginations?
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