One question has followed me throughout my life: how is it possible that humanity knows so much about the living world, yet feels so profoundly disconnected from it, from one another, and even from ourselves? My doctoral research examined Eurocentric and utilitarian assumptions that often treat relationships as secondary to transactions. Over time I came to see that the deeper problem lies in the fragmentation of knowledge itself. We possess more information than any previous generation, yet struggle to perceive the relationships that give that knowledge coherence. I call this ecological illiteracy: the habit of treating knowledge as discrete facts or siloed fragments rather than a joined-up expression of the relational order that sustains life. Knowledge, in this fuller sense, is not merely the accumulation of information but the capacity to recognise one’s place within an interconnected world and to act responsibly within it. Many Indigenous knowledge traditions do not separate k...