Ecocide – a religious (but non-Christian) view
Is nature sacred? If so in what way, and what difference does it make? Continue reading Ecocide – a religious (but non-Christian) view
Author: Patrick Curry
Patrick Curry is a writer and scholar living in London England. He is the author of Ecological Ethics: An Introduction, rev. edn (2017) and the editor-in-chief of The Ecological Citizen. For more information and articles, see his website www.patrickcurry.co.uk
The death of Freya
Let’s not indulge in euphemism. Freya was a living mammal like us, who wanted to live. What you ordered was not euthanasia but a killing, or a murder. Continue reading The death of Freya
What change? Whose reconciliation?
On Friday 22nd April, an unusual ceremony took place in Winnipeg, Canada. Represented by its governor, the Hudson’s Bay Company gave its massive retail store in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, dating from 1881, to the Manitoba First Nations. Continue reading What change? Whose reconciliation?
The poverty of identity politics
Considered ecocentrically, identity politics and exclusive social justice activism have serious flaws. They include encouraging destructive human narcissism, a stunted range of ethical sympathy, and a disregard for a healthy natural world as the precondition for any politics at all. Continue reading The poverty of identity politics
Earth Tongues 