suffering sweetgrass (erin jean warde)

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Chapter 5

reflection

“The study revealed that sweetgrass was suffering not from over-harvesting but from under-harvesting. The species had co-evolved with specific indigenous harvesting practices, which in turn had specifically evolved to increase the success of the plant. A specific type of human attention, use, and stewardship had become environmental factors on…