They include substance abuse and abusive interpersonal relationships, even when we know they are nonsense, destructive, or greedy. That is typical zombie behavior. It produces death rather than supports life. Since we ecozombies can produce artificial substitutes for parts of nature we have lost, we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's perfection, thus producing pollution, garbage and relationship disorders.
Wildlife flees our insensitivity as do people.
We feel lonely, we sense that we don't belong. Because we are disconnected from nature, we don't turn to nature to help us recycle our polluted ways. We don't receive the purification, healing and regeneration that supports the rest of the natural world. Mr. Sanders, you, like me, became an ecozombie because you were born into a ecozombie community. Our society is no different than the Governing Council of an island community that consisted entirely of non-sighted people.