Environmental Ethics: Some past texts

Monday, August 8, 2022

Some past texts

2020:

Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Attfield;
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben;
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein;
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren

2018:

1. Love Earth Now: The Power of Doing One Thing Every Day, by Cheryl Leutjen-"what you can do right now that will mean more to the world than all that power and influence can buy"

2. No Is Not Enough: Resisting Drumpf's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, by Naomi Klein-"Drumpf's reckless agenda—including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment... Our historical moment demands a credible and inspiring “yes,” that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.

3. Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistanceby Bill McKibben-“Is it a surprise that the debut novel from one of our best-known environmental activists focuses on grassroots resistance?"... "may well be the lost sequel to Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang..."

4. Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction by Erle Ellis-"Humanity's impact on the planet has been profound. From fire, intensive hunting, and agriculture, it has accelerated into rapid climate change, widespread pollution, mass extinctions...The Anthropocene has emerged as a powerful new narrative of the relationship between humans and nature."

Also recommended:

Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime by Bruno Latour

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the

Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene by Jed Purdy

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach

*Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

*Anchor Point by Alice Robinson

*We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly

*Polar City Red by Jim Laughter

*Please Don't Paint Our Planet Pink by G.Kleiner and L.Thompson

*see The Best Cli-Fi Books by Dan Bloom

Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Clade by James Bradley

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

Severance by Ling Ma

Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway

Required texts 2016 (fyi):

1. Ecotopia - 40th Anniversary Epistle Edition(Callenbach)

2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate(Klein)

3. Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis (Flannery)

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TEXTS Fall '24

First things first--a proper education

“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.” ― Wendell Berry

The college project

“The American college may be considered a continuation, at the human level, of the self-education process of the earth itself: universe education, earth education, and human education are stages of development in a single unbroken process...The entire college project can be seen as that of enabling the student to understand the immense story of the universe and the role of the student in creating the next phase of the story.” --Thomas Berry, “The American College in the Ecological Age,” in The Dream of the Earth

“Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
― Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

“Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?”
― Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse.”
― Martin Keogh, Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

“When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.”
― John May, The Greenpeace Story

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
― T.S. Eliot

“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”
― Bill McKibben, The End of Nature

“We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in history.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the
single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this
world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the
environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
― Aldo Leopold

“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”
― Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.”
― Ivan Illich

Environmental Ethics

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Some past texts

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