Sentences with phrase «ecological crises in»

Modernity has led inevitably to an ecological crisis in which we are already involved but which will become far more acute in the decades immediately ahead.

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He begins with the now - familiar thesis that the planet is in ecological crisis due to human rapaciousness, advances his theological revisionism as essential to the cure, and ends with the dire warning that unless a program like his is adopted it will be seen soon enough that «Christian theology is ecologically bankrupt.»

We have also written about the ecological crisis and involved ourselves in criticism of standard theories in biology and economics and even physics.

While many other ecofeminists are deeply skeptical about the environmental fallout from the Christian economy of creation and salvation, Grey sees in that economy the prophetic challenge and the inspiration to remedy the ecological crisis.

When the ecological crisis gained attention in the late sixties, people found that «God» was the enemy of nature as well.

In fact, the ecological crisis is not merely a Third World problem.

We have also become aware that the anthropocentrism that characterizes much of the Judeo - Christian tradition has often fed a sensibility insensitive to our proper place in the universe.2 The ecological crisis, epitomized in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, has brought home to many the need for a new mode of consciousness on the part of human beings, for what Rosemary Ruether calls a «conversion» to the earth, a cosmocentric sensibility (Ruether, 89).3

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

Writing in The Christian Century nearly two decades ago, educator Richard Baer noted: «So far the church has not sufficiently grasped the nature of the present [ecological] crisis, has not understood how powerfully dehumanizing is man's wanton exploitation of his natural environment, has not appreciated the degree to which man - made ugliness and the fouling of natural beauty are corroding man's mind and spirit» («Land Misuse: A Theological Concern,» October 12, 1966, p. 1240).

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

In the late «60s there rose a spate of what might be called theological or religious responses to the ecological crisis, again primarily in advanced industrial countries; Two major tendencies predominated among such writerIn the late «60s there rose a spate of what might be called theological or religious responses to the ecological crisis, again primarily in advanced industrial countries; Two major tendencies predominated among such writerin advanced industrial countries; Two major tendencies predominated among such writers.

In order to reverse the ecological crisis, therefore, we must go back to the root error of consciousness from which it derives.

Those who are doubtful point to the deepening misery of the poor, the loss of traditional values and community relationships, the looming ecological crises, and the structural dependence of prosperity on decisions made in financial centers in other parts of the world.

In today's ecological crisis and in every doctor's waiting room is a body of evidencIn today's ecological crisis and in every doctor's waiting room is a body of evidencin every doctor's waiting room is a body of evidence.

The shadows cast a few years ago by the threat of impending atomic destruction have lightened somewhat, only to be replaced in popular attention by an awareness of ecological danger and the energy crisis.

Well before the cloudburst of the first atomic bomb, long before a perceived «ecological crisis,» Maritain perceived the fragility of life on earth — not only in his personal mortality, nor even in the fragility of planet earth.

The contemporary ecological crisis represents a failure of prevailing Western ideas and attitudes: a male oriented culture in which it is believed that reality exists only as human beings perceive it (Berkeley); whose structure is a hierarchy erected to support humanity at its apex (Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes); to whom God has given exclusive dominance over all life forms and inorganic entities (Genesis 1 - 2); in which God has been transformed into humanity's image by modern secularism (Genesis inverted).

It seems unlikely that mainstream Christian tradition, married as it is in the West to the traditions of Greco - Roman philosophy, is capable of resolving the ecological crisis Christian reading of Genesis 1 - 2 through Greco - Roman philosophy created.

Historically, the biblical creation story was read through the sensitivities of Greco - Roman philosophy; in fact, the legacy of Greco - Roman contributions to the ecological crisis may be more powerfully influential than distinctively biblical contributions.

People with such sensitivities should have been the first to become aware of the ecological crisis and the most perceptive in their response.

In an article not included in either of the two volumes on deep ecology on which I have chiefly relied, he calls for further operationalizing of the «fundamental ethical norms we attempt to use in the ecological crisis» («Encouraging» 54In an article not included in either of the two volumes on deep ecology on which I have chiefly relied, he calls for further operationalizing of the «fundamental ethical norms we attempt to use in the ecological crisis» («Encouraging» 54in either of the two volumes on deep ecology on which I have chiefly relied, he calls for further operationalizing of the «fundamental ethical norms we attempt to use in the ecological crisis» («Encouraging» 54in the ecological crisis» («Encouraging» 54).

Corporate farming has had a disastrous impact in India, said Shiva, where it interferes with local economies and triggers ecological crises.

In terms of emphasis, especially in the current global ecological crisis, that of deep ecologists is correcIn terms of emphasis, especially in the current global ecological crisis, that of deep ecologists is correcin the current global ecological crisis, that of deep ecologists is correct.

But an ethic that is limited to human beings is going to be somewhat inadequate in this age of ecological crisis.

And in 1989 Alastair M. Taylor and Duncan M. Taylor tried to prove that dualistic nature of Semitic religions paved the way for ecological crisis.

In short, on the one hand, we end with the ecological crisis, and on the other hand, we end with the futile attempts of Derrida and other postmodernists to deconstruct the self's relation to history and nature so that it can create itself on the basis of nothing other than its own desires and preferences.

In the West, during the Age of Enlightenment, Cartesian (philosophy of R. Descartes, who was a 17th century French philosopher) dualism contributed to the development of ecological crisis.

Some contemporary theologians, in response to the ecological crisis we currently face, deem it crucial that we reevaluate and refine the classic Christian doctrines regarding God's relationship to the natural world and humanity's place within the created order.

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

To the degree that the transition from an orientation on increase in the quantity of life to an appreciation of the quality of life, and thus from the possession of nature to the joy of existing in it can overcome the ecological crisis, peace with nature is the symbol of the liberation of man from this vicious circle.

The ecological crisis leads me to believe that Marx's concept of nature is in urgent need of correction.

On the other hand, there are horrendous dangers of worldwide misery implicit in the threat of nuclear war, extinction by ecological disruption, the explosion of population, and the political problems of governing the world's peoples during a period of such momentous crises.

With the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorrow.

8:22) together with our own groaning is audible in the ecological crisis we face.

Christianity, in contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions, has not only established a dualism of man and nature, but has also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends... Hence we shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence, save to serve man.

There was a time when we thought that ecological crisis was not a serious problem for us in the poorer countries.

As a result of deforestation, consequent erosion and a breakdown in the water cycle, crisis point was reached in 1990 when it was realised that 14000 km2 was suffering extreme ecological degradation.

Living in a world with fewer species creates a human crisis as well as an ecological one, researchers warn.

In a forthcoming paper, Haldane uses ecological thinking to propose a range of preventive policy measures (see ««Haircuts» identified as a cause of financial crisis»).

So, in a moment that is as weird as this one — being an ideological crisis caused by us facing (or not) the reality of a coming ecological crisis — many people are thinking we've got to do better.

The bloody conflict in Syria may worsen a little - known ecological and humanitarian crisis across the border in Jordan, says Debora MacKenzie

And the work is taking place at the nexus of rapid urbanization, widening consumer participation and ecological crisis — that is, in China.

(Properly speaking, TV and ecological crises are all the 22 characters have in common, though there are many references early on to doors being left open — a glancing reference to the more figurative portals that make the interactions between the various plots possible.)

The problems on water are a crossroad in the middle of our time: ecological crisis, poverty, migrations, climate change, etc..

The United Nations Environment Programme and the International Labour Organisation estimate that there is considerable employment opportunity in «green jobs», defined as «decent work» that helps to tackle the ecological crises we face.

The starting point for many of her recent works and research has for instance been the eco-cinematic question: how and with what kind of technology, drama and expressive devices can we build the image of our world in this present moment of ecological crisis?

The ensuing juxtapositions, and literal renewal of the organic elements, revived their potency to speak of a contemporary moment of economic and ecological crises, not least in his native and adopted countries.

Dylan Gauthier is a Brooklyn - based artist whose research - based and collaborative practice is centered on experiences of nature, architecture, landscape, and social change in a time of ecological crisis.

The exhibition takes its inspiration in part from the 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic film of the same name, and serves as an abstract documentation of the ways that humans have responded to the ecological crises of climate change with scientifically informed aesthetic practices.

Frazier will present «Flint is Family (2016 - 2017), a series of works exploring the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the effects on its residents during one of the most devastating man - made ecological disasters in U.S history.