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Author:   Whitney Bauman ,  Kevin O'Brien
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.300kg
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9780367259143

ISBN 10:   0367259141
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   27 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction The problem with knowing the answer Chapter 1 Ethical action in an ambiguous world Chapter 2 The depths of ambiguity: Ethical pluralism and wonder in Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Rachel Carson Chapter 3 Good and evil without progress Chapter 4 Complexity in action: The challenging uncertainties of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X Chapter 5 Loving the world without certainty Chapter 6 The dangers of building without ambiguity: Spirituality and utopianism in Frank Lloyd Wright Chapter 7 Concluding ideas on ambiguous time Chapter 8 Concluding practices for an uncertain stand: Fracking, Protesting, and engineering the climate

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"""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, USA ""Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty is 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, USA ""Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty offers 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, USA ""The distinctiveness of Bauman and O’Brien’s text comes through its unique combination of theoretical and applied chapters, drawing upon an impressive array of interdisciplinary sources and examples … Employing the familiar frame of ‘wicked problems’, Bauman and O’Brien argue that approaches to environmental issues must inevitably appreciate complexity and uncertainty while emphasising the multiple positions and perspectives surrounding specific … Bauman and O’Brien’s work offers an important perspective to be considered by any scholars and activists interested in applied environmental ethics in the twenty-first century."" Joseph D. Witt, Mississippi State University in ‘Environmental Values’, 2020"

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 Uncertainty is 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 Uncertainty offers 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

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, USA Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty is 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, USA Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty offers 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, USA The distinctiveness of Bauman and O'Brien's text comes through its unique combination of theoretical and applied chapters, drawing upon an impressive array of interdisciplinary sources and examples ... Employing the familiar frame of 'wicked problems', Bauman and O'Brien argue that approaches to environmental issues must inevitably appreciate complexity and uncertainty while emphasising the multiple positions and perspectives surrounding specific ... Bauman and O'Brien's work offers an important perspective to be considered by any scholars and activists interested in applied environmental ethics in the twenty-first century. Joseph D. Witt, Mississippi State University in 'Environmental Values', 2020

Author Information

Whitney A. Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, USA. His books include Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (2014) and, with Kevin O’Brien and Richard Bohannon, Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology, 2nd Revised Edition (2018). Kevin J. O'Brien is Professor of Religion and Dean of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. His books include The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists and, with Whitney Bauman and Richard Bohannon, Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology.

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