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Alberta and the Global Commons: A Climate Change Tragedy
Boschman, Robert (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The Canadian province of Alberta contains the third-largest proven reserve of oil on earth, yet the disconnect between politics and the sciences has never been more severe or as consequential. A right-wing party given to ... -
Apocalypse Then, Now — and Future?
Taylor, Bron (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Since The Limits to Growth study in 1972 scores of studies have concluded that, without a dramatic reduction in human numbers and per-capita consumption and thus ecosystem destruction, and absent concomitant transformation ... -
At the Bottom of the Barrel: A Response to the Recent World Scientists’ Warnings
Estok, Simon C. (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)COVID-19 has taught us that it is possible to make sudden social changes that result in radical reductions of greenhouse emissions, changes that decades of climate change activism have failed to achieve. At the core of ... -
Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses: Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times
Armiero, Marco (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The majority of scientists agree on climate change and on the most daunting environmental problems humans are facing today. Moved by a commendable desire to contribute to the solution of these problems, several scientists ... -
Book Review: Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin’s The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
Woods, Derek (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Book Review, Derek Woods Lewis, Simon L., and Mark A. Maslin. 2018. The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene. London: Pelican. -
Gaia versus the Anthropocene: Untimely Thoughts on the Current Eco-Catastrophe
Sagan, Dorion (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)Embracing science but suggesting an alternate explanation for global warming, the essay provides a thermodynamic and historical perspective on eco-destruction. From a long-term evolutionary perspective, caution is raised ... -
The Language of Warning: The World Scientists’ Efforts to Communicate and the Challenge of Poignancy
Slovic, Scott (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)It’s one thing to issue a clarion cry (or multiple clarion cries), and yet another thing to be heard. The world scientists’ warnings about the direness of our climate predicament have offered detailed, authoritative ... -
Long Live the Climate Machine!
Blanc, Nathalie (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)This paper tries to grasp the different links of the issue of climate change in the public debate from the point of view of adaptation. Firstly, it is a question of the novelty introduced by the climate problem on ecological ... -
Passionate Specificity
Fisher-Wirth, Ann (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)I am a Professor of English and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. Mississippi is a conservative state, and environmental education is not part of many schools’ ... -
Political, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of Issuing Warnings to Humanity
Yearley, Steven (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The scientific community has a sustained history of issuing warnings to society’s leaders and policy-makers. In such cases, scientists take on the task of alerting those in power to issues they may not notice or not wish ... -
A Sea Change in the Environmental Humanities
Åsberg, Cecilia (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)As we are living through a transformative response to a viral pandemic, this think piece suggests a reimagining of the environmental humanities in the open-ended inventories of feminist posthumanities and the low trophic ... -
The Sense of Place at the End of the World
Foot, Stephanie (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)This article discusses the 2017 document “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice” in relationship to the daily life of Appalachia, one of the United States’ most resource rich and yet economically poorest ... -
Speaking for the Earth and Humans In the “Age of Consequences”
Castree, Noel (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)The environmental humanities are suffused with a sense of urgency. As geoscientists sound the alarm about human treatment of the Earth, likewise environmental humanists seek to trigger the “conversation of humankind” that ... -
The Watchman’s Part: Earth Time, Human Time, and the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity”
Szerszynski, Bronislaw (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)In this article I discuss three “Warnings to Humanity” about the state of the global environment, signed by global networks of scientists and published in 1992, 2017 and 2019. I place these in the context of the long ... -
“We” May Be in This Together, but We Are Not All Human and We Are Not One and the Same
Braidotti, Rosi (Cappadocia University Press, 2020)There has never been a more urgent time to engage with the Environmental Humanities and the other Posthumanities. This engagement is creative as well as critical and it touches upon some fundamental issues within what I ...
