Nature, Cultures, and Social Love
Title: Nature, Cultures, and Social Love: Rethinking Humanity’s Connection to Nature Through Solidarity
Introduction
Global crises-convergence in climate change, economic disparity, and social upheaval-have magnified the complex relationships between humanity and the natural world. These challenges create an opportunity to turn this around on an exploration of how unconditional love and solidarity will reshape our understanding of nature to forge more resilient, meaningful connections. The question is how can human population overcome the problems. This session will review the transformative role of love from below as a driver for ecological balance and human well-being.
Purpose
This session is an appeal for critical reflection about the present and possible future relationship between human beings and nature. It will foster a glimpse into how social love may cultivate forms of utopian coexistence with nature through responses to environmental and social crises emanating from non-traditional, non-anthropocentric communities.
Methodology
This qualitative presentation is informed by interdisciplinary perspectives within sociology, ecology, and ethics. The theoretical framework combines post-colonial, post-patriarchal, and ecological perceptions to challenge dominant anthropocentric views. It highlights social love as a transformative force for promotion solidarity and sustainable human-nature relationships. Contributions will focus on historical and contemporary examples of social love expressed through concerted environmental action and community resilience. Presenters will engage with theoretical frames that include the post-colonial, post-patriarchal, and ecological reasoning to show how love and solidarity guide human relations with nature.
Conclusion
This experts reconceive the human-nature relationship through the context of social love. It offers meaning to global ecological and social crises, by showing how unconditional love and practices in a suffering context may nurture not only solidarity but also sustainable forms of living that caringly tend the human and ecological communities. An inspiration toward new forms of justice refocusing attention away from individualistic hegemonic narratives of well-being.