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THIS AUTHOR SUGGESTS THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF ECOPOLITY WITH THE EARTH ONLY SEEMS SO STRANGE AND IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT IS DISCOMFORTING, BECAUSE IT THREATENS OUR IDENTITIES, MAKES US FEAR FOR OUR FREEDOM, OUR POWER, OUR WHOLE WAY OF LIFE. IT WOULD MAKE US TOLERATE PERSPECTIVES, KNOWLEDGES, WAYS OF BEING--THOSE OF THE MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS, TREES AND ANIMALS--THAT WE NEVER WOULD HAVE DREAMED OF BEING CALLED UPON TO TOLERATE. HE SUGGESTS THAT LIBERALISM'S POLITY TOLERATES ONLY THE HUMAN WAY OF BEING AND INTERPRETATION OF THE WORLD, NONE OTHER. FOR SHAMANIC CULTURES THE EARTH IS NOT RADICALLY OTHER, OUTSIDE THE POLITY; NATURE IS PART OF THE TRIBE AND HUMANS ARE JUST ONE GROUP AMONG MANY, NEITHER SUPERIOR NOR SUBORDINATE. HE CONCLUDES THAT ECOPOLITY WITH THE EARTH IS ESSENTIAL IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE EARTH.