401 • Elemental Kinship

The U.S. Surgeon General has declared loneliness an epidemic as dangerous as smoking. But the prescription — more calls with friends, more dinner parties—is only part of the story. What if we aren’t just lonely for people, but for the land herself? In this episode, we explore Ecological Estrangement and the wisdom of ecologist David Abram, who suggests that our human relationships are breaking because we are asking them to carry the weight of the entire world. Today, we stop asking humans to ...