Multimedia | film profile
Bringing It Home
This film examines the environmental impact and uses of hemp, from nutrition to construction.
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Multimedia | film profile
Transgenic Wars
This film examines the global reach of transgenic agricultural technology through the use of genetically modified soy produced in Argentina and used as pig feed in Denmark, as well as the far-reaching health consequences in both countries.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ of the Holy Father Francis on Care for our Common Home
In his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ Pope Francis invokes all humans, believers and non-believers alike, to work together to save the earth from environmental degradation and create a fair and sustainable future for all.
Multimedia | book, full-text
UN World Commission on Environment and Development, ed., Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future
In 1987 the UN’s World Commission for Environment and Development publishes the report “Our Common Future,” also known as the “Brundtland Report.”
Multimedia | book, full-text
IUCN, ed., World Conservation Strategy: Living Resource Conservation for Sustainable Development
The seminal “World Conservation Strategy” of 1980 argues for the protection of essential ecological processes and habitats, the preservation of genetic diversity, and the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.
Multimedia | book profile
Krebs, Angelika, Ethics of Nature: A Map
Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?
Multimedia | book profile
American Environments: Climate–Cultures–Catastrophe
This volume focuses on environmental knowledge production in the United States by taking as starting points the impact of natural catastrophes and of public debates on climate change and environmental threats.
Multimedia | journal article
Holm, Poul, et al., "Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action"
The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
Perspectives
Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses”
In “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Dipesh Chakrabarty examined the idea of the Anthropocene—the dawn of a new geological period dominated by human activities—in the context of history and philosophy, raising fundamental questions about how we think historically in an era when human and geological timescales are colliding.This volume of RCC Perspectives offers critiques of these “Four Theses” by scholars of environmental history, political philosophy, religious studies, literary criticism, environmental planning, geography, law, biology, and geology.
Perspectives Article
Heralding a New Humanism: The Radical Implications of Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses”
LeCain provides a detailed analysis of Chakrabarty’s “Four Theses” and its implications for humanism. This thinking diverges from that of Western Enlightenment by challenging the humanistic belief that we are separate from, even above, the material world. In fact, human culture is inextricably linked to the natural material world; we are both a force and product of it.