I’m not so sure this is really new; it’s something that’s been around for decades, albeit in a marginal kind of way, with a scientific understanding of cause and effect being far more central.
I’m not so sure this is really new; it’s something that’s been around for decades, albeit in a marginal kind of way, with a scientific understanding of cause and effect being far more central.
I’d say it’s been around for millenia… probably as long as language at least. Not a fresh idea globally, just for those of us who grew up in a dominionist-type world view.
I don’t really understand your link to the IPCC figure…
FWIW, I think “water is alive” is only a concept that makes sense in a context where the water is interacting with other things (e.g. the hydrocycle, winds, tides, ecology). Water in the purified and stored sense isn’t really… Unless it can rust it’s container, I suppose. But yeah, rivers being alive makes lots of sense.