How best to characterize the past decade in books? This list focuses on three themes: attempts to grapple with the nature of the climate and extinction crises, the “ontological” and “decolonial” “turns” in cultural and environmental theory, and efforts to map out the “multispecies entanglements” that characterize our world and the acute challenges we face.
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Books of the decade in ecocultural theory
Posted in Academe, AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Anna Tsing, Anthropocene, books, books of the decade, climate change, cosmopolitics, decolonial turn, decoloniality, Donna Haraway, ecocultural theory, Eduardo Kohn, extinction crisis, Marison de la Cadena, multispecies studies, ontological turn on December 18, 2020 | 6 Comments »
Thought exercise (democracy & reality)
Posted in Politics, tagged climate change, democracy, tipping points, Trump on September 11, 2020 | 1 Comment »
See how far you follow my line of thinking here: (1) Democracy (institutional and not just majoritarian/representational) is better than the alternatives. Let’s live with it (and defend it). (2) Democracy as practiced in the U.S. today is partial, compromised, and somewhat muzzled, but still better than the alternatives. Let’s fix it up. (3) Democracy, […]
CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”
Posted in Academe, MediaSpace, tagged calls, climate change, Coronavirus, Earth Day, Earth Day 2020, events, hyper-events, lockdown, pandemic politics, virtual gatherings on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »
Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).
Long-term civilizational prognosis: a hypothesis
Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged abduction, C. S. Peirce, civilizational crisis, climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency, eco-religion, global civil religion, global disorder, globalism, Latour, politics of meaning, religion, Varela on October 14, 2019 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a hypothesis: If the human community exists in some more or less unified form in 880 years (in the year 3000 by our calendar), that feat will have been accomplished, at least in part, in and through the emergence of an ecological religion. What does this mean, and how could we test it? Religion, […]
Climate Action Week: What to watch for
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged capitalism, climate change, climate communication, climate justice, climate movement, Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg, memetic warfare, UN Climate Action Summit on September 16, 2019 | 3 Comments »
As people around the world prepare for Global Climate Strike Week (Sept. 20-27) and for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City on Sept. 23, here are some thoughts and sources to help us think about what’s at stake, what’s possible, and what we can do. This blog may be updated as needed, […]
So, here we are…
Posted in AnthropoScene, SpiritMatter, tagged Christianity, climate change, climate justice, globalization, hope, Jonathan Franzen, Matthew 25:40 on September 8, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, what a reaction the article described here has gotten… This version includes a follow-up comment below. Jonathan Franzen’s “What If We Stopped Pretending?” articulates an important point about hope and hopelessness in the face of climate change. Franzen suggests that an “all-out war on climate change” no longer makes sense because the scenario for […]
Vermonters & climate change
Posted in Politics, tagged climate action, climate change, climate motivation, interview, news, small-c conservative values, Vermont, Vermonters, VPIRG, WCAX on November 30, 2018 | 3 Comments »
I was interviewed yesterday by the local CBS-affiliated WCAX news show on the topic of how to motivate Vermonters to take action on climate change (while Bernie Sanders and Cornel West were speaking just up the road). What was used of our interview was fairly minimal, so I thought I would share the notes I […]
Denial, incompetence, & depravity
Posted in Politics, tagged circular economy, climate change, climate denialism, climate justice, climate politics, climate science, eco-religion, National Climate Assessment, Paul Krugman, religious conversion, Republican Party, scientific consensus, Trump on November 28, 2018 | 3 Comments »
For many, President Trump’s babbling and incoherent responses to last week’s National Climate Assessment (“I’m too smart to believe it, just look at our air and water and what those other countries are doing…”), following on from his even less coherent responses to California’s wildfire tragedies (“They should rake more, like the Finns”), merely reconfirm that […]
Heads in the sands
Posted in Politics, tagged climate change, Fourth National Climate Assessment, National Climate Assessment, NCA, reports, United Statesm Trump administration on November 25, 2018 | 1 Comment »
It’s not surprising that the Trump administration would wish to bury the nearly 1700-page Fourth National Climate Asessment, Volume 2: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States, a report written by over 300 scientists representing 13 federal agencies, by having it released on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when most Americans are too […]
Latour’s terrestrial project
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Bruno Latour, climate change, climate denialism, climate politics, cosmopolitics, Donald Trump, Down to Earth, ecopolitics, political ecology on October 28, 2018 | 2 Comments »
Review of Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018. Down to Earth is in significant part a restatement of Bruno Latour’s theorizing over the last few decades, made more incisive in the light of Trumpism (and other illiberal populisms) and brought to bear specifically on the moment of […]