[ b 1,1 ] The vision for Phloem Phloem grew out of post-global warming images and ecological themes in Japanese anime and manga. Representations of climate changed overgrown ruined green cities cross-fertilized with my studies of petroleum culture, ecological philosophy, climate policy rhetoric, and indigenous ecologies and legal orders. Since 2017, I have been teaching an undergraduate course using anime to teach about anthropology, technology and ecological philosophy. The work of MIYAZAKI Hayao has been particularly influential especially the original Nausicaä manga and the film Mononoke Hime. At the end of Mononoke Hime, the early modern characters of Iron Town ask themselves, “Can we live in peace with the forest?” – Yes, I think we can, and even transform our urban habitats and dwellings into forests. (drum, duskin. 2020)

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{San} Even if it recovers, this place is no longer the forest of the Shishigami. The Shishigami is dead.
{Ashitaka} The Shishigami will never die. He is both life and death itself. He told me to survive.
{San} Ashitaka, I love you, but I cannot forgive humans.
{Ashitaka} That's fine. You live in the forest, I will live in Tataraba. I will come to see you from time to time, riding Yakku.
{Eboshi} I'm so ashamed. Being saved on the back of a Mountain Dog. I want to thank him. Someone go get Ashitaka.  Everyone, let's start over. We'll make this a good village.
(Mononoke Hime, dir. Hayao Miyazaki. 1997)