Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt

Imagine a world where the mountains and glaciers, trees and
waterways and animals—everything comprising our living, breathing
planet—had as much a right to exist, legally, as humans. In this
narrated essay, author Boyce Upholt travels to meet with the
O’odham peoples of the Sonoran Desert, who have long revered the
Saguaro cactus as a being with personhood. As Saguaro are bulldozed
to make way for a segment of the US-Mexico border wall through
Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, existing legal protections for the
cactus come up against human-centric and extractive attitudes
towards the Earth. Talking with elders from the Tohono O’odham
Nation who are acting on behalf of the rooted beings of the desert,
Boyce wonders how our Earth might transform if we recognized the
dignity of all life. Read the essay:
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/saguaro-free-of-the-earth/
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