As comments on my article Great Man Theory begin opening more questions, I find it increasingly necessary to respond with another post. My largest concern with the ecological lens, which is argued for best on our blog by Philip Rothrock, is that global warming is not yet seen by enough people to be a pressing issue. My […]
Indigenous Peoples Organizations (IPOs) are an important constituency in international climate change negotiations today. Perhaps because as a collective group, indigenous peoples have been dominated and neglected for hundreds of years, often uprooted from their lands and treated disrespectfully. Or maybe on some level, we realize that, as a collective group, indigenous peoples around the world might hold […]
While coalitions meeting at Copenhagen this December may have many different needs, perspectives, and individual goals, it is important to remember the interconnectivity of the Earth. Interconnectivity: The concept that all parts of a system interact with and rely on one another simply by the fact that they occupy the same system, and that a […]
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Climate change is not an issue to be fixed by entire populations; it won’t require an inspiring montage of an entire community pitching in, bicycling instead of driving cars and turning off lights when they aren’t in use (with the help of their animal friends à la Snow White). It cannot require a change […]
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