Western Emotions and an Environmental Disaster

Catherine Lutz, in her book Unnatural Emotions, describes how Western or Euramerican concepts of emotion have negatively effected gender ideologies. I argue these same concepts of emotion are leading Western cultures to an ecological disaster. Lutz’s describes the Western dichotomy between emotion and cognition. On the emotional side, she relays themes of irrationality, subjectivity, chaos, […]

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Don’t Blame Big Energy

Environmentalists can be too quick to lay blame on the energy industry for global warming. A recent summit in Oklahoma of alternative energy hosted by Congressman Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, was a reminder of the difficulties of the blame game: energy consumption is consumer driven. This was not a summit on energy conservation, although sustainability was […]

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