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2.10: Ecofascism and Rewilding: A Conversation With Ariel Kroon and Christina De La Rocha
Read more: 2.10: Ecofascism and Rewilding: A Conversation With Ariel Kroon and Christina De La RochaThere’s no question that the biosphere is in crisis right now thanks to human-driven global warming, our hostile takeover of most of Earth’s land area, and our pollution and overfishing of the seas. Slowing down—never mind outright stopping—the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystems and the mass extinction currently gaining pace calls for aggressively protecting the…
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2.9: Reframing Narratives With Ecocriticism, With Dr Jenny Kerber
Read more: 2.9: Reframing Narratives With Ecocriticism, With Dr Jenny KerberIn this episode, Ariel discusses the topic of ecocriticism with Dr Jenny Kerber, Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. What is ecocriticism? Why is it important, especially for environmental activists and solarpunks, as a narrative reframing device? Solarpunks work very closely with speculation and imagination and as architects of the narratives by which…
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2.8: 50 Million Years of Climate Change – with Christina!
Read more: 2.8: 50 Million Years of Climate Change – with Christina!For the longer story of the last 50 million years of climate change, including some of the reasons why, catch this episode of our podcast with Dr De La Rocha! You’ll hear about plate tectonics and continental drift, silicate weathering, carbonate sedimentation, and the spectacular effects the growth of Earth’s ice sheets have had on Earth’s…
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2.7: Science and Christianity: Is There a Conflict? With Norm Nelson
Read more: 2.7: Science and Christianity: Is There a Conflict? With Norm NelsonI (Christina), the host of this podcast episode, as a scientist and atheist who tends to assume all scientists are atheists—because how could they not be? Yet, there is a long tradition of curiosity, inquiry, and, yes, science within the Abrahamic religions and no shortage of devout scientists working hard to this day to understand…