Rituals can remind us that nature is a part of our identities as well, because around the world, lots of communities do recognize this, right? So yeah, there are many rituals across the world and ways of construing the natural world actually in an even broader way. And I think rituals really allow us to cultivate that sense of changing the land from something we see and something we use from a functional property to something that is sacred.
Last week, a scientific assessment found wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in just under 50 years. Such rapid and significant losses are leaving many of us with a deep sense of grief and anxiety. To make sense of these emotions and channel them into action, people are increasingly performing rituals and commemorative acts for the natural world. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Claire White about the power of rituals in bringing us together to process grief, and hears from author Andri Magnason about why he wrote a eulogy for Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier officially lost to the climate crisis. Help support our independent journalism at
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