Caring about Nature as Necessary for a Climate Solution

Even when we overcome climate change denial, the question of how to motivate ecological moral priorities remains. Many hold that high consuming citizens’ ethical understanding of the extreme and present/future dangers of climate chaos for human wellbeing is sufficient to provoke effective climate action. However, without intense ethical caring about nature itself, the motivation to effectively address climate change will elude us. What forms of ethical caring are needed to combat the very real dangers of global climate change, and what can help cultivate them?

Speaker: Christine Cuomo, University of Georgia

Room: Hartley Conference Center