
Mental Health, Biodiversity and Mythology
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Importance of Mythology in Science
Mythology is the stories that humans create about our lived environment so that we can coexist with the biodiversity there and not cause collapse. How is it that mythology and science are arriving at the same conclusions? Because I reckon mythology is far, far more important than we give it credit to be. This is indigenous mythology all around the world. This is Irish mythology too. What's causing climate change and the collapse of biodiversity is capitalism and colonization. That's what has caused this. Empire expansion and greed. The current empire of neoliberal capitalism of the global north extracts, resources and wealth from the global south. And when one culture colonizes another it's not just as simple as we're sending our
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