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A review by kailawalton
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Well, what can I say. I will buy and listen to anything and everything this author puts out.
“Imagine if we acknowledged that everything we consume is the gift of Mother Earth, we would take better care of what we are given.”
This book like her other works always merge western ecology and Indigenous ecology and wisdom. Indigenous ways of being with the land is something that the colonizers tried to wipe off the face of the earth. Thankfully, they weren’t successful but instead they r brought with them capitalism which brings a “market economy” with it. In this book Robin talks about well what if instead, we used gift economy. Like all Indigenous peoples have used time immemorial. How would the world look if this is what we did in a larger scale instead of hoarding and scarcity?
This short book packs a punch in its 105 pages. I highly recommend listening to Robin narrating it. I need her to write another full length book asap.
“Imagine if we acknowledged that everything we consume is the gift of Mother Earth, we would take better care of what we are given.”
This book like her other works always merge western ecology and Indigenous ecology and wisdom. Indigenous ways of being with the land is something that the colonizers tried to wipe off the face of the earth. Thankfully, they weren’t successful but instead they r brought with them capitalism which brings a “market economy” with it. In this book Robin talks about well what if instead, we used gift economy. Like all Indigenous peoples have used time immemorial. How would the world look if this is what we did in a larger scale instead of hoarding and scarcity?
This short book packs a punch in its 105 pages. I highly recommend listening to Robin narrating it. I need her to write another full length book asap.