UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies (E-Journal - York University)
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The World Conservation Strategy As A Dystopian Vision
Full text linkThe World Conservation Strategy (WCS) was published in 1980 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESC0). Its mandate was to establish a universal understanding of environmental problems and to secure the acceptance of planetary management goals. In the face of massive desertification, deforestation, the erosion of soils, the pollution of freshwater supplies, the extinction of species and many other ecological disasters, it seemed prudent to have one overall strategy for dealing with environmental ills. The authors of the WCS agreed that non-human resources had to be identified and protected in order to secure the integrity of ecosystems as well as our own future
Anthropomorphism: In The Web of Culture
No full textAs a conservationist and an environmental educator, I am intrigued by human relationships with animals. The umbrella question for me is in what ways do people relate to animals at this moment in Western history? I have focussed here on one type of relationship that humans have with animals -- the anthropomorphic relationship
Shedding Our Skin, Dropping Leviathan's Armour: A Meditation on the Spirit of Disrespect and the Crisis of Civilization
Full text linkBeginnings are useful, because they contextualize change. Once upon a time, there was changelessness. A point at which the nothing and the All were One, but which contained all possibilities. All-potent. All-promising