A lilac-breasted roller ( Coracias caudatus ). P hoto by  Sander Wehkamp  on  Unsplash By Rodrigo Cáceres In the first part of this post , we talked about the recent international consensus from governments and expert scientists ( i.e.  IPBES) stating that  "current trajectories" (including  "economic, social, political and technological factors" )  are incapable of coexisting in harmony with  life on Earth. We were also able to reveal potentially transformative narratives such as  "Reconciling with life " or  "Reconciling with nature " , that embody an active and loving engagement towards the defense of life on Earth. The main point that I've been trying to make in these essays is that the way we talk about  life on Earth  deeply matters and that there are profound differences between distinct ways of speaking about  life on Earth . Naturally, this is not just something that I claim on my own; it is one of t...

A lilac-breasted roller ( Coracias caudatus ). Photo by Sander Wehkamp on Unsplash By Rodrigo Cáceres In the  previous part of this post , we examined the word biodiversity as a highly abstract new word that we can quite hardly relate to our subjective and collective experiences of nature. Instead, the more intimate and inclusive words of " life"  and " life on Earth" show every sign of being profoundly adequate to trigger a deep engagement and care for life on Earth and a willingness to defend it from current destruction. For this reason, we will try to examine them a bit more deeply in this post. Before we start, for the purposes of this post I will assume that nature, biodiversity and life on Earth  are completely equivalent and interchangeable terms, since all three refer to the very same thing. I agree that there are some conceptual differences between the three terms because of their history ( for example, that in modern cultures nature...