Goodchild’s article for the Special Commentary section analyzes Pope Francis’s Laudato si, focusing particularly on the concept of connectedness and the economic changes necessary for the Pope’s statements to become reality.

Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.

Susanna Lidström and Greg Garrard trace the development of “ecopoetry” from the Romantic and deep ecological traditions of the 1980s to the complex environmental concerns of the 2010s.

Blasi shows how Terrence Malick’s film Badlands (1973) retrospectively illuminates the forces in the 1950s that contributed to present problematic human-nature relations, with attention to Malick’s images of waste and death.