Genuine Sustainability and Interdisciplinarity through a Planetary Perspective

A planetary perspective disregards the modernist distinction between nature and culture as artificial and distorting. Rather, humankind is not a sovereign actor on the stage of nature, but always embedded within an infinity of interrelations between the human and the non-human world. A planetary perspective in science seeks to move beyond anthropocentrism and considers human life not as exceptional but as equal to all other living and non-living entities on earth and thus represents an approach that is genuinely sustainable and interdisciplinary.