ABSTRACT
We argue here for a post-carbon, post-anthropogenic parallax view for our survival in the Anthropocene that requires the conjoining of the natural world with our everyday epistemic universe as without that we do injustice to the planet earth and to other non-human members. Drawing on recent works on the Anthropocene, this chapter looks for new survival ethics, premised on the ethos of eco-justice and sustainability. In doing this, we take Indian tribal cosmologies and Indian philosophy of nature as our empirical base as Indian indigenous tribes have been living with the Earth for centuries. We argue that tribal worldviews of India adopt convivial living principles and are more attuned to eco-justice which challenges the monological narrative of the anthropomorphic Capitalocene. Pope Francis’ recent Encyclical letter Laudato Si’: on Care for our Common Home (2015) exactly emphasizes this issue of eco-governance and an Earth-centric imaginary that can do justice to our common home, the planet Earth. Borrowing Vandana Shiva’s idea of ‘Earth Democracy’ and Dipesh Chakrabarty’s recent notion of non-human “species history,” both practiced and reflected in indigenous cosmologies, we argue for a reversal of our all too human ways of looking into life and living.
