The term “web of life” is proposed by Jason W. Moore. See Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, ed. J. W. Moore (PM Press, 2016).
“Earth workers” is a term I developed with Radha D’Souza in Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (Framer Framed, 2023).
William Allen, “Plant Blindness,” BioScience, no. 53 (2003): 926. He writes that plant blindness is “the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment,” resulting in “the inability to recognize the importance of plants in the biosphere and in human affairs.”
Neil Vigdor, “Bezos Thanks Amazon Workers and Customers for his Vast Wealth, Prompting Backlash,” New York Times, July 20, 2021 →.
Colin Burgess, Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle (Springer, 2007).
Nicky Woolf, “SpaceX Founder Elon Musk Plans to Get Humans to Mars in Six Years,” The Guardian, September 28, 2016 →.
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2011).
See Jonas Staal, “Comrades in Deep Future,” e-flux journal, no. 102 (September 2019) →.
Eco-constructivism builds on the constructivist notion of the object as comrade, expanded here to the nonhuman comrade and worker. See Christina Kiaer, Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press, 2005).