Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty
Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty
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Author(s): Bauman, Whitney A.
ISBN No.: 9780367259112
Pages: 160
Year: 201908
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 220.36
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

"This welcome collaboration between two key scholars of environmental culture explains why embracing complexity, pluralism, difficulty, and uncertainty leads to better, deeper responses to environmental troubles. In clear prose with wide intellectual reference, Bauman and O'Brien argue that "radical change is possible only at the pace of ambiguity." Willis Jenkins, Professor of Religious Studies & Environmental Humanities at the University of Virginia "Environmental Ethics and Uncertaintyis original, engaging, and important. It offers students and other readers an entry into some of the very complex and challenging moral and theoretical issues related to climate change in a way that is smart and well-grounded without being overly dry, dense, or inaccessible. It does so by focusing on exactly the themes we need to be discussing in regards to environmental ethics and climate change today: ambiguity, uncertainty, pluralism, and hope. The authors show how uncertainty is not only theoretically but also practically helpful, as they think through concrete ethical problems such as fracking and pipeline protests. Further, their use of eclectic sources and thinkers both shows the wide range of issues and ideas we need to address in thinking about climate change and invites conversation with readers outside the field." Anna Peterson, professor, department of religion, University of Florida "Environmental Ethics and Uncertaintyoffers a timely intervention in polarized debates surrounding issues like climate change or fracking, and who or what we should believe.


Drawing on the wisdom of activists and thinkers ranging from Rachel Carson to Martin Luther King, Jr., the book underscores the value of questioning. Bauman and O'Brien show us that excessive certainty and willful ignorance--both prominent stances in modern American culture--fail to capture the complexity of knowledge and its relationship to moral action." Professor Lisa Sideris, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University be discussing in regards to environmental ethics and climate change today: ambiguity, uncertainty, pluralism, and hope. The authors show how uncertainty is not only theoretically but also practically helpful, as they think through concrete ethical problems such as fracking and pipeline protests. Further, their use of eclectic sources and thinkers both shows the wide range of issues and ideas we need to address in thinking about climate change and invites conversation with readers outside the field." Anna Peterson, professor, department of religion, University of Florida "Environmental Ethics and Uncertaintyoffers a timely intervention in polarized debates surrounding issues like climate change or fracking, and who or what we should believe. Drawing on the wisdom of activists and thinkers ranging from Rachel Carson to Martin Luther King, Jr.


, the book underscores the value of questioning. Bauman and O'Brien show us that excessive certainty and willful ignorance--both prominent stances in modern American culture--fail to capture the complexity of knowledge and its relationship to moral action." Professor Lisa Sideris, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University , Jr., the book underscores the value of questioning. Bauman and O'Brien show us that excessive certainty and willful ignorance--both prominent stances in modern American culture--fail to capture the complexity of knowledge and its relationship to moral action." Professor Lisa Sideris, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University.


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