Sentences with phrase «western environmental thought»
They are fascinated by the science, asking questions about the climate history of the Tibetan plateau and the chances of reaching environmental tipping points, as well as questions about western environmental thought and policy.
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Although she is not specifically addressing environmental thought, this is an argument pressed by Caroline Walker Bynum in her recent and remarkable study, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity.
[10] During the past ten or so years — primarily, I think, in the wake of environmental awareness — Western peoples have become newly conscious of the devastations humanity is capable of when it thinks itself accountable to nothing beyond itself.
Western environmental activists think the Chinese and Indian argument is valid and that we really should go first.
«We think the meat is more tasty that way,» explains Cun «Angela» Yan Fang, who went from guiding Western tourists as a local Naxi to guiding her fellow locals through the biogas technology and environmental conservation promoted by Western environmental groups such as the Nature Conservancy and Rare.
Nancy Rabalais, a marine scientist who has spent much of her career probing environmental risks to the coasts and waters of the Gulf of Mexico, sent me some cautionary thoughts on cleanup options based on decades of work, including field studies following the 1979 blowout of the Ixtoc I oil well in the western Gulf.
«Longing for Running Water» shows how the connections between Western thought, patriarchal Christianity, and environmental destruction necessitate personal conversion to «a new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos.»
On Earth Day 1998, Western Fuels launched a front group called the Greening Earth Society to promote «positive environmental thinking,» namely, the idea that increased CO2 emissions would benefit humanity.