Scientific animism? Or is it Scientific animism?  This sounds like an oxymoronic contradiction. Animism, the belief that natural things – plants, mountains, stones, rivers, animals – are inhabited by spirits, bears a connotation of “primitive” and “childish,” of Disneyfied fantasies about animals talking to humans.  Modern science is more likely to insist that only humans … Continue reading Scientific Animism, a Partner of Environmental Science?