My first question is whether blaming others is the same as denial because blame seems to be branched under the umbrella of denial as a ‘cornerstone of modern environmental politics’. While a Marco Rubio-type will carefully convey that they refuse ‘to acknowledge the impending ecological collapse of civilized society’, Patagonia and Chipotle, among others, do not seem to deny this… Read more »
In the age of the Anthropocene, humans face inescapable reminders of our species destruction to the earth. We have entered our “mirror-moment,” having viewed Earth from space (Anthropocene, 2015). Those alive today share in a time when we can readily see the devastation our species has created, as anthropogenic pollution reaches even the most remote places on Earth. The BBC… Read more »
Only solidarity can bring about the radical changes needed to free ourselves from an authoritarian future and deliver us to a planetary politics, where “our existence is neither international nor global, but planetary,” (Burke, 504).
As individuals in this living system of the Anthropocene era, where most of the human population is living in denials by “ignoring or downplay […] evidences in many way [by] not engaging in conversations aobut issues [and] allow ourselves to be diverted by consumerism and infotainment” (Dixon) How do we as individuals, as students can navigate ourselves to take action… Read more »