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Politics in—but not of—the Anthropocene
Meyer explores the need for a comprehensive politics of climate change.
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Interview with Stacia Ryder, Kathryn Powlen, and Melinda Laituri, editors of Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Stacia Ryder, Kathryn Powlen, and Melinda Laituri are interviewed on their edited volume, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures.
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The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour stresses the urgency of the issues plaguing our planet, and the current generation’s pivotal role in tackling them. It features several leaders and experts and is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Climate Change and the Confluence of Natural and Human History: A Lawyer’s Perspective
This essay examines what the concept of the Anthropocene means for environmental law and policy. Humans can be viewed as both insider and outsider—as an integral part of nature, which we have a duty to protect, and as lord and master of the natural world, taking what we can for our own survival. Eagle explores how the choice of an insider or outsider view can influence political discussions regarding environmental regulation.
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The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)
In the 1980s, the findings of Paul Crutzen and his team were used as the basis for the Montreal Protocol’s ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), identified as the primary cause for the hole in the ozone layer.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
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“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
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“A World Parliament of Rivers”
Rita Brara and María Valeria Berros argue for the importance of a legal recognition of rivers. “What we want for rivers now is an institution that can be entrusted with their environmental protection on a global scale.”
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Interview with Kate Rigby, author of Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Rigby is interviewed on her book, Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation.
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“Climate Blues: or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History”
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?