Reciprocity Abram Summary

Abram argues about our obliviousness to everything other than ourselves, our willingness to shove aside all other species in our reckless rush to multiply and fill the earth, and even to cast aside all the other humans who are falling apart and dying as a result of the steady swelling of our numbers and the steady surge of technological progress. It imply those who wish to spark a new awareness of other species and a new recognition of other animals, plants, wetlands, and forests. It even works to awaken us from this steady, many-centuries long spawning behavior that seems to hold us in its grip. There was once when Abram went kayaking in Alaska, when he saw all these salmons roaming around in this oily water produced from Exxon Company. He …show more content…
The two-way flow, the reciprocal exchange between realms. The systole and diastole, is one the signs that the earth is alive. The rhythmic pulse that fishes are in the body of ocean, circulating, growing, return to the beating heart of the forest, gravid with new life. Reciprocity is cultivated between human persons, and ethics emerges as the practice of right relationship within human society. The rest of nature cannot reciprocate our attentions. It can only emerge only if there is some sort of common ground, some common medium through which a mutual exchange can unfold. Language play a big role in the practice of reciprocity. By many indigenous, oral peoples seem to spend just as much time talking to the world; speaking to the forest, to the land itself, and listening for their replies. The modern, civilized assumption is that language is precisely that which distinguishes and separates us two-leggeds from all the other animals since humans alone possess the capacity for meaningful speech. Language, for us moderns, is an exclusively human property. From all of this, it relates to the readings of Paul Watson and the 4 laws of