"Human Rights in an Ecological Era"
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
William Aiken examines the tradition of human rights and their role in our currently increasing environmental awareness.
This essay argues that reproductive liberty should not be considered a fundamental human right, or certainly not an indefeasible right, but that it should, instead, be strictly regulated by a global agreement designed to reduce population to a sustainable level.
This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan trajectory of ecocritical theory.
Miller suggests a new heuristic, the ecology of freedom, which highlights past contingency and hope, and can furthermore help guide our present efforts, both scholastic and activist, to find an honorable, just way of living on the earth.