How do we get people to think ecologically?
Jere: ...the universe and all of its constituents are alive, and that they manifest some form of consciousness. I have struggled to explain this philosophically and scientifically for most of my life and you can see this in some of the references in the Language of Wisdom section of Math 4 Wisdom. For example see the first six pages of The Philosophers Dream. The Philosophers Dream
Andrius: At this page, we can write about the ecological theorists whose thoughts resonate with us and others. We can try to identify what ideas resonate and why.
Ecological Theorists Who Resonate With Us and Others
Christopher Alexander was an architect who investigated, What makes a building alive? He distinguished the modern way of building from blueprints with the timeless way of building from pattern languages. Patterns relate structure and recurring activity.Kevin Mitchell has written the book Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, where he develops an alternative to the reductionist paradigm, considering what agency means, what it means for agents in nature to be causes. See the paper: Potter, Mitchell. Naturalising Agent Causation.
Jaak Panksepp was a neuroscientist who successfully argued that animals experience emotion just as we do. He noted the parallelism between humans and animals in their neural circuitry, their behaviors and their symptoms. This gave scientific grounds for interpreting external symptoms in animals in terms of what we ourselves feel internally. James Lovelock proposed and Lynn Margulis further developed the Gaia hypothesis that life on Earth forms an integrated complex system. Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, authors of Permaculture One, developed the concept of permaculture as a sustainable alternative to industrial agricultural monoculture. John Muir advocated the preservation of wilderness areas but also encouraged tourism.American transcendalists included Henry David Thoreau.
Wikipedia has a list of environmental philosophers.
Social Movements to Study
The Animal rights movement has made real progress in changing the ways that animals are treated by humans, including individuals, institutions and societies.
The Environmental movement has a long history that we can learn from.
Vegan and vegetarian movement. Nonsmoking movement.
Wikipedia has a general list of social movements.
Ideas
TimberFish system as an experimental way of verifying panpsychism.
What would AI say about TimberFish vs. contemporary industrial methods?