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Art, Social Change, and the Green City: A Rebuke of Green Metropolitanization
Rob Krueger argues that art provides a way of framing the disconnect between “green metropolitanization” and its emancipatory potential.
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Slow Hope: Rethinking Ecologies of Crisis and Fear
This essay explores the possibility of “slow hope” for positive environmental change.
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Lessons from the Last Continent: Science, Emotion, and the Relevance of History
Shortis suggests that the World Park Antarctica campaign offers a positive example of an environmental campaign that includes but does not center scientific authority.
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Searching for Gigi: Captivity, Culture, and the Pacific Coast’s Embrace of Gray Whales
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.
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The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
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Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters
How can we best influence and enact a shift beyond “doom and gloom” when we talk about the environment? The letters in this Perspectives volume are responses to this dilemma. Through an exploration of new environmental narratives, this volume aims to stimulate readers to emotionally reflect on how we can embrace hope and resilience in our stories about the environment.
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The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Encounters and Legacies
This issue of RCC Perspectives takes a sweeping look at encounters with and legacies of the book, examining the global impact of Silent Spring over its half century of existence and considering the ways in which Rachel Carson’s ecological worldview equips us to understand and confront current and future challenges to our planet.
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Stop Saving the Planet!—and Other Tips via Rachel Carson for Twenty-First-Century Environmentalists
Jenny Price critiques Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring for reinforcing a human–nature divide that shifted environmental responsibility onto individuals while obscuring systemic and institutional accountability.
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Reading Silent Spring as a Challenge for Contemporary Environmentalism
Lawrence Culver argues that no book has matched the impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and urges modern environmentalists to emulate her clear, compelling communication to reach broad audiences.