Sentences with phrase «ecological crisis»

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

There are various responses to the growing ecological crisis.

She uses photography, video, social engagement, publishing, and installation to investigates what «getting back to nature» can mean in the age of human - made ecological crises.

Today however the world is confronted with a serious ecological crisis.

The group's mission is to bring the essential wisdom and practices from the Buddhist tradition to collective engagement on critical ecological crises.

Similar work is going on throughout the region, which is at risk of ecological crisis.

Dillon Raborn examines how New Orleans - based artist Cristina Molina uses her family history to make sense of impending ecological crisis in southern Florida.

Church in India, which had faithfully held on to a theology imported from a civilization responsible for ecological degradation, has to reconsider and redefine its mission in the context of worsening ecological crisis.

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

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.

The present ecological crisis is partially the practical consequence of the old Newtonian philosophy of nature as dead, insensitive, and mechanical; and Hartshorne's panpsychism should aid man's efforts to rethink his relation to the cosmos.

The Third World perspective on ecological crisis raises the question of justice as an overriding concern.

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.

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.

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

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.

Lynn White, the California Professor of History, holds this view responsible for the modern ecological 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.

Major obstacles include religious fundamentalism, which not only triggers conflicts but also contributes to the suppression of women; global warming, which might produce ecological crises that spur social unrest and violence; overpopulation, particularly when it produces a surplus of unmarried, unemployed young men; and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

If the current global economic and ecological crises provide the driver, then the Review of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide the opportunity — for change.

In the words of the artists: «this exhibition registers an inability to comprehend and articulate the political, social and ecological crises experienced around the world today.

For Assiff, the phenomenon — or perhaps more accurately, the light that science and hindsight has retroactively cast on the phenomenon — provides a parallel to the collective panic we find ourselves in today, in part due to ecological crises too often thought of as independent of human interference and scientific analysis.

Despite the amazing intelligence captive parrots can display, Tweti is in the end more concerned with the security of the birds in the bush: «Parrots are the canaries in the coal mine of the present - day ecological crisis.

Pope Francis has denounced the «grave ecological crisis» of desertification in the latest stage in his campaign on behalf of the environment.

The global ecological crisis sprang forth full - blown at roughly the same historical moment that global capital — welcoming the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the decay of the revolutionary process in China — was claiming a definitive victory over socialism.

I believe that in times of economical and ecological crisis like the one we're going through at the moment, it is important to get together and think positively about the future of business.

TreeHugger: But at the pace these things are happening, are we really going to prevent the big ecological crises that people are predicting?

In 2003, EPI released Plan B, a book synthesizing research on the earth's multiple converging ecological crises and laying out a step - by - step plan (including a budget — if you're curious, it's $ 161 billion) for how to transition to a sustainable path.

Frazier spent five months with three generations of women, the poet and singer, Shea Cobb, Shea's mother, Renée Cobb, and her daughter, Zion, living in Flint in 2016 witnessing their day to day lives as they lived through one of the most devastating man - made ecological crises in US history.

Mattingly is an artist who takes societal consumption and ecological crisis as points of inquiry.

We turn also to the power of a religious naturalism that emphasizes both the continuing transcendence of challenging ideals and the relative transcendence of surpassing resources to give us the challenge and the empowerment to undergo the drastic paradigm shifts which may be needed as we face our exponentially worsening ecological crisis.

For one thing, a lot of that old - time industrial work contributed mightily to the present ecological crisis — a point Fauldi could have developed better than she does.

Ecological crisis raises a host of new questions about the concept and practice of mission.

Since I am a student of comparative religion and of Islam, the intention of this work is to formulate an Islamic response to the growing ecological crisis, by taking the issue of perception of creation seriously.

It's imperative, at the current time of ecological crisis, that we reduce our consumption of carbon intensive meat and dairy, and we're happy to support a global movement that's addressing this necessary action.»

On the level of nature, it is becoming ever more evident that the pretensions of homo faber as the essential definition of humanness are the prime source of the worsening ecological crisis we face.