ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how we can be kind to the Earth in our everyday lives. It questions the reconciliation of capitalist accumulation and environmental limits, and argues for a collective communal response to our state of planetary emergency. This communal response is one that needs to heed the multiplicity of understandings, backgrounds and aspirations of those involved, ‘discovering creative forms of pleasure in and with the Earth.’ The chapter aims to pave a way for concerted political action for an earthly politics of a differentiated humanity. Grounding life is thus a task for all us, but perhaps seeing the disproportional responsibility of the Western world in bringing about our current state of climate emergency, inspirations for new attachments can be sought there as well as elsewhere.
