“Humans Are Humus: An Analysis of Boff’s Panentheistic Ecotheology in the Framework of the Biocultural Ethic”

In this chapter, Rozzi proposes a biocultural ethic grounded on the conservation of the vital links among (i) the habits of caring and conservation of land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, (ii) the daily interactions with diverse human and other-than-human co-inhabitants, and (iii) their shared habitats. This is the 3Hs triad (habits, co-inhabitants, and habitats) of the biocultural ethic. The conservation of these habitats is the condition of possibility for the wellbeing of the communities of co-inhabitants, and the continuity of complex interrelationships between biological and cultural diversity.