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The fourth and final episode of the series on Kate Soper's book, What Is Nature? After three episodes of deep dives into specific and narrow elements of the philosophy of nature, in the finale we take a step back and try to put it all together. More specifically, we'll consider some questions about our responsibility to our environment. What do we owe to an environment and a biosphere that has given us everything we need to make our lives--air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat? To what
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extent to we face an imperative to take care of these systems and processes that have taken care of us? To help answer these questions, we'll take a closer look at the philosophy of Deep Ecology to see if it can offer any guiding wisdom. Also stay tuned through the end of the episode for some piping hot critiques of our present social and economic philosophies that could very well be getting in the way of our attempts to take care of our planet. If you'd like to read the book for yourself, here’s a link to Amazon. Be forewarned: it is a dense work of academic philosophy! And finally, here are some links for further reading and research. For some introductory reading about Deep Ecology, check out the Foundation for Deep Ecology. For a deeper dive, check out The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology by Alan Drengson (of the Foundation for Deep Ecology). Here's a great article deconstructing the conflict between the economy and the environment titled, "'Jobs vs. the Environment': How to Counter This Divisive Big Lie" And finally, here's a wonderful non-profit that helps to reimagine our economic philosophies to develop and implement ecologically sustainable modes of economic production called the New Economy Coalition.
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