In «Four Forms
of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered,» he first distinguishes «resource conservation,» «wilderness preservation,» and «moral extensionism.»
Relationship, as we now see more clearly in the emergence
of ecological consciousness, is the substance of all being and of life itself.
Not exact matches
I and others
of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals
of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «
ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause
of the poor.
Some treatments attempting to raise
consciousness on the
ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture
of nuclear winter or the extent
of death and destruction that will occur after such an event.
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
Heidegger's philosophy well shows us how an intuition
of Being, alongside faith in God, can contribute to
ecological consciousness and promote that «dwelling» which lives in harmony with the earth.
This essay builds upon those papers by showing the relevance
of a dialogue with other religions — in this instance a dialogue with Zen Buddhism — to a deepening
of Christian
ecological consciousness.
1For an excellent survey
of the ambiguous record
of Christian thinking vis - a-vis the need for creation
consciousness, see Paul Santmire, The Travail
of Nature: The Ambiguous
Ecological Promise
of Christian Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985).
Connectedness as causal dependence also seems to be what Callicott has in mind when he says that our states
of consciousness are formed through adaptive interaction with the
ecological organization
of nature (Callicott 1986).
From the very beginning the rise in
ecological consciousness has matched the decline in the quality
of life.
The Christian faith in the transfiguration
of the world in Christ may thus be marshaled in support
of a global and
ecological consciousness.
In order to reverse the
ecological crisis, therefore, we must go back to the root error
of consciousness from which it derives.
Change in circle 7 involves a combination
of consciousness - raising education designed to increase enlightened caring for the whole biosphere, and social - political action to produce changes in the institutions
of our society that are essential to protect our precious and fragile
ecological environment.
Some attempts to raise
consciousness about the
ecological, nuclear situation paint a picture
of nuclear winter or the extent
of death and destruction that can occur.
By
ecological orientation, I mean «a new
consciousness of the country» or «a new relation to it,» as the narrator
of O Pioneers!
The stubborn resistance
of the poor tribal women in the now famous Chipko movement against the Government's decision to turn their habitat into a mining area, has brought to our
consciousness the inseparable link between the struggle
of the poor and
ecological issues.
Women's liberation will gain general support from women only when it can be revealed as a necessity that also expresses the mandate
of the woman as the foundation
of the survival
of the race, Male false
consciousness has created an antagonistic concept
of self and social and
ecological relations that is rapidly destroying humankind and the earth.
Firespiral Slings uses materials sourced from their local Northwestern England, combined with
ecological consciousness of the footprint they leave behind.
It presents a future in 2022 that seems unlikely not because we're not currently on the verge
of some great
ecological disaster, but because rough math suggests that the Heston character would've been born the year before the film's 1973 release and thus his declaration that he'd never seen a grapefruit (or grass, or cows) should worm its way into the audience
consciousness as Soylent Green's statement that it's not serious, thoughtful science - fiction, but rather soapbox and screed timed to coincide with, in 1972, the first international conference on climate change.
which correlates intelligence, thought, and
consciousness as interdependent neurobiological base
of the
ecological understanding
of the human spirit.
Although it is true that the constitution
of the United Nations represented itself as an effort
of intergovernmental cooperation and plural unity
of human diversity, creating a planetary
consciousness of belonging to a community with a common destiny, the achievement
of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forces us to create new symbiosis between
ecological sustainability and human rights.
Robert Rauschenberg's Earth Day poster is a waypoint that announces the codification
of this awareness, an artifact from the genesis
of the modern day environmental movement and a recognition
of the moment when these long - standing
ecological concerns became a matter
of mainstream
consciousness.
Empowered by knowledge
of the
Ecological Footprint from my studies at UC Berkeley and work at Global Footprint Network, I now consider Earth Hour as a great opportunity for everyone to review our relationship with the entire ecosystem and at the same time raise environmental
consciousness.
Above all they are on trend and promote
consciousness of ecological issues through education.
The first photographs
of Earth in its entirety transmitted from outer space were received as signs
of a new
ecological consciousness.
It is that too many
of us fail to build into our work and our organizations a
consciousness that the roots
of our
ecological crisis and the roots
of our social inequities and injustices are deeply intertwined.
Though playing off a similar idea - that some type
of catastrophic showdown is coming our way at the end
of the current Mayan calendar in December 2012 - this new movie «2012: Time for Change» is actually an animated documentary that takes a positive spin on our joint
ecological predicament - positing that an evolution
of human
consciousness could get us back in tune with nature and make humans more able to be positive stewards rather than wanton destroyers
of our world.
«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.»
The clash between the consumer culture in which we are embedded and the culture
of ecological (and sometimes spiritual)
consciousness we choose can sometimes drive us to pure frustration.
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