“The Earth Is sui generis”: Destabilizing the Climate of Our Field
If the game is lost, then we're all the same.No one left to place or take the blame.We can leave this place an empty stone. Or that shining ball we call our home.—“Throwing Stones” by John Barlow and Bob WeirEMERGING CONSENSUS SCIENCE suggests that we will soon inhabit a planet that will be two...
Subtitles: | Roundtable on climate destiabilization and the study of religion |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 300-319 |
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Summary: | If the game is lost, then we're all the same.No one left to place or take the blame.We can leave this place an empty stone. Or that shining ball we call our home.—“Throwing Stones” by John Barlow and Bob WeirEMERGING CONSENSUS SCIENCE suggests that we will soon inhabit a planet that will be two degrees Celsius warmer than it currently is—with some estimates suggesting up to five or six degrees warmer—by the end of the century, with almost the entirety of this temperature shift caused by human activities.2 George Monbiot, one of Britain's leading journalists working on the policy and cultural implications of climate destabilization and who, upon reading the most recent summary of the International Panel on Climate Change's... |
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ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv023 |