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We cannot listen or learn easily when we do not feel safe, said the environmental science students to their corporate sponsored teachers. Our lungs cannot breathe easily or our hearts beat steadily when we are not sure we can trust the anthrosupremacist resource currently lecturing preaching pontificating If not explicitly, then in some implied win/win, too optimistic sin, win/lose, realistically right more than left sacred, lose/lose, nihilistic blaming Earth for our economies of immoral EarthTribe scarcity, scary complicity Toxic inside learning anxieties anticipating outside cooperative therapeutic organic incorporations like cooperatively owned forests and meadows, mountains and river valleys, Contextually embraced by RightOne practical survivalists and Left ZeroZone outside classroom thrivalists learning inside civil manners from MotherTrees and their sacred mountained forests and lakes, green and blue and cloud covered too Studying vast lands of win/lose uncertainty taught verbally for capital-embedded ears to hear, repeat, memorize And patriarchally reteach reparent ignoring our indigenous ecofeminist deep green sacred customary way of learning co-passionately felt dialogical bioformation systems Inviting conversations between thoughts and feelings as they inevitably dipolar co-arise When we are listening deeply learning easily curiously active when we feel safe and healthy and sure we can trust our cooperatively owned sacred outdoor classroom gifts.

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