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- | Environmental literacy and environmental orality | + | **Environmental literacy and environmental orality** |
- | The ability to read and store knowledge in written form has become so fundamental to our cultural imagination that literacy - the ability to read - is used as a wider indication of understanding. I’ve been interested in environmental literacy | + | The ability to read and store knowledge in written form has become so fundamental to our cultural imagination that literacy - the ability to read - is used as a wider indication of understanding |
- | Metaphorically speaking, an environmentally literate person or machine | + | An environmentally literate person, being or machine |
- | Under closer inspection this boundary appears less uniform. In many ways ‘pre-history’ is still with us; reading emerges in different cultures at different times. Some groups of people communicate without the need for a written language. Illiteracy can be imposed on people in a literate culture both deliberately and by circumstance. Archeologist Gavin Lucas presents a way of considering prehistory as existing wherever the context or purpose of material cultures and artefacts are irretrievably lost. | + | Under closer inspection this boundary appears less uniform. In many ways ‘pre-history’ is still with us; the ability to read is not evenly distributed. |
Seen over the timeframe of millions years of human existence, literacy is a very recent phenomenon and many areas of life remain fundamentally oral. So many things in life are still learned by people sharing things directly. The study of animal cultures has shown how fundamental direct exchange is to many forms of life. Where conservation efforts used to focus on organisms and habitats, | Seen over the timeframe of millions years of human existence, literacy is a very recent phenomenon and many areas of life remain fundamentally oral. So many things in life are still learned by people sharing things directly. The study of animal cultures has shown how fundamental direct exchange is to many forms of life. Where conservation efforts used to focus on organisms and habitats, |