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Inequality and environmental crisis

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 5, 2017 | 18 Comments »

As part of its Ford Foundation supported Inequality Project, The Guardian is providing a provocative glimpse of Oxford geographer Danny Dorling’s important research into inequality and the environment. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the complexities surrounding causes and potential solutions to the environmental crisis. Read the article here. No surprise that the US […]

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Not just waiting for Godot

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , on September 11, 2015 | 19 Comments »

You may take this as more optimistic blathering from within the pessimistic morass, but here goes. Those of us who teach environmental studies — who teach impressionable young adults about the colossal challenges facing humanity in the coming decades, with the looming climate crisis, resource wars and (human and nonhuman) refugee crises, and mass extinction on a […]

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The challenge

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on September 13, 2014 | 1 Comment »

The closing panel of this conference featured Winona LaDuke, Tim Ingold, Bron Taylor, environmental epidemiologist Colin Soskolne (who convened the preceding panel on public and environmental health regimes), and myself. We were each asked to provide five minutes of summary comments on the big issues of our concern (related to the conference). The following were […]

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