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Once upon a time ...

In the book "The Nation of Plants" Stefano Manucso questions the human-conceived hierarchies by presenting our world as a place where all living beings are equally valuable. Nevertheless, he is convinced that in a successful coexistence of beings, humans have to request their self-perception.

We as humans know we are in a state of balancing close to the tipping point. We pretend to know everything. We pretend to be the smartest beings on earth. Meanwhile we are our biggest enemy. To get a deeper understanding, we need to switch the perspectives, break down hierarchies and be more empathic. Empathy between humans and their environment, nature and further beings has to be strengthen.

Life has existed for more than three billions of years while homo sapiens are only around 300 000 years old. So our existing is like a grain of sand in the dessert.

How can we strengthen the connection between humans and all the non-human existence?

When was the last time you have been dreaming of utopia? Do you feel emotional connected to plants? Does Wanderlust exist without nature?

Three true-based stories in which human show deconstructing behavior: File:Four Pest campaign.pdfThe stories sound like individual cases, but of course they are not. While the first two are based on the interaction of human and animals the last one points out political misleading and mistreating of human rights.

Performatives Storytelling

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-====== ''Four Pest campaign''  ======
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+'''Once upon a time ...'''[[File:Utopia.jpg|thumb]]In the book "The Nation of Plants" Stefano Manucso questions the human-conceived hierarchies by presenting our world as a place where all living beings are equally valuable. Nevertheless, he is convinced that in a successful coexistence of beings, humans have to request their self-perception.
-Mosquitoes, flies, rats and sparrows - these four so-called plagues were to be destroyed at the end of the 1950s under Mao Zedong's rule. Mao was certain that this was "the great leap forward" to combat economic and social social inequalities in the country. The calculation seemed logical. One sparrow eats about 2 to 4 kilos of grain a year and, on this assumption, by killing one million sparrows, 60,000 people could already gain food. One killing method was distrubing birds with incredible noise until they would fell to earth. The extermination was successful, but the death of the birds was followed by a raising population of insects and thus a plague of grasshopper. The result: the great famine between 1959 and 1961. In 1960 sparrows were placed in the agenda by bed bugs. It is said that a quarter of a million sparrows were later imported from the USSR to China. Today, sparrows are allowed to live in peace again nevertheless they become a rare species in China.
-Stories like that are trageic but no individual cases. Human beings always find a way of disturbing nature and its balance.
+We as humans know we are in a state of balancing close to the tipping point. We pretend to know everything. We pretend to be the smartest beings on earth.  Meanwhile we are our biggest enemy. To get a deeper understanding, we need to '''switch the perspectives''', '''break down hierarchies''' and be more empathic.
+Empathy between humans and their environment, nature and further beings has to be strengthen.
-====== Racoons in Europe ======
+Life has existed for more than three billions of years while homo sapiens are only around 300 000 years old. So our existing is like a grain of sand in the dessert.
-At the beginning of the 20th century, the North American racoon was brought to Europe - for the fur industry.
-At some point, the animals were able to escape from their cages. Today they are considered a plague, as they have hardly any natural enemies in Central Europe. The situation is similar with raccoon dogs from Japan. Lynx, wolves, brown bears or, in the case of offspring eagle owls can also become enemies. The most common cause of death for raccoons is .... take a guess ... traffic.
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+How can we strengthen the '''connection between humans and all the non-human existence?'''
+When was the last time you have been dreaming of utopia?
+Do you feel emotional connected to plants?
+Does Wanderlust exist without nature?
+Three true-based stories in which human show deconstructing behavior:
+[[File:Four Pest campaign.pdf|left|thumb]]The stories sound like individual cases, but of course they are not. While the first two are based on the interaction of human and animals the last one points out political misleading and mistreating of human rights.
+'''Performatives Storytelling'''
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+[[File:SadStories.jpg|thumb|270x270px|center]]