Sentences with phrase «for ecological crisis»

Though White blames Christianity for our ecological crisis, the intellectual historian was a great admirer of Saint Francis, whom he describes in his Science article as «the greatest spiritual revolutionary in Western history.»

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.

Not exact matches

Ecological crisis has brought to our awareness the need for preserving this fragile earth which is our common home.

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

When I finally exposed myself to the literature that dealt with the ecological crisis, its emotional impact did not have to do only with my concern for the future of human beings.

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.

There are reasons for believing that the group most able to appreciate the ecological dimensions of the emerging crisis — population, pollution, use of resources — may well be prosperous white Americans, especially their children.

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» 54).

The global environmental crisis tells us that the ecological system has been disastrously affected by the design of the production system, which has developed with almost no regard for sustaining the ecological system.

Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have issued a joint appeal for political leaders to «support the consensus of the world» that climate change and other environmental ills have created an ecological crisis that is harming the world's poorest the most.

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.

I would like to name two significant problems for which neither has yet been able to find a satisfactory solution: the impoverishment of the Third World not only through capitalistic but also through socialistic forms of exploitation; and, the ecological crisis.

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.

Unfortunately, this dietary pattern also ignores the numerous health risks associated with eating meat, the ethical issues associated with an increased demand for food animals, and the looming environmental crisis that makes eating lower on the food chain an ecological imperative.

As yet, the focus of governmental planning and action everywhere lags behind the emerging appreciation that the primary crisis for world order concerns the dynamics of ecological disequilibrium.

Inspired by the ecological crisis, artists are seeking to connect with nature on a personal level — listening to glaciers, talking to plants, or taking biospheres for a walk.

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 key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

When I brought this piece back from Iceland in 2011, I was thinking about issues of dislocation, and about the difficulties in navigation as we look for an exit from the worsened ecological crisis.

I am talking about a new notion of citizenship that is called for by the demands of the ecological crisis, an «ecological citizenship» of a global scope, that can best be promoted by, well, the one global body of nations we have.

I give talks and workshops on various aspects of our ecological crises and can vouch for two aspects of what you post here.

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

Addressing the 1990 Global Forum in Moscow, he called for «ecologizing» society and said: «The ecological crisis we are experiencing today — from ozone depletion to deforestation and disastrous air pollution — is tragic but convincing proof that the world we all live in is interrelated and interdependent.

13 September, 2017 — Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew appeal for urgent global response to the «challenge of the ecological crisis and climate change».

Financial Support: Green Mountain College's scholarships include two environmental scholarships for students: the Environmental Advancement Scholarship grants up to $ 7,000 to students with «an interest in addressing the growing ecological issues and crises confronting our world.»

If we fail we are almost certain to suffer the consequences of ecological and social crisis for geological scales potential lasting for hundreds of thousands of years as did the global warming of the Eocene.

As the coming century of global warming threatens to accelerate the extinction crisis, we believe the highest and best use of public lands is to provide safe harbor for species by protecting the ecological systems upon which they and we ultimately depend.

«I feel the global ecological crisis is a wake up call for us all, a call to awaken I AM consciousness, the magnificence of who we are,» says Parvati.»

And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only remained strong but is actually accelerating.

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.