Description
Why we must rethink our residency on the planet to understand the connected challenges of tribalism, inequity, climate justice, and democracy.
How can we respond to the current planetary ecological emergency? In To Know the World, Mitchell Thomashow proposes that we revitalize, revisit, and reinvigorate how we think about our residency on Earth. First, we must understand that the major challenges of our time--migration, race, inequity, climate justice, and democracy--connect to the biosphere. Traditional environmental education has accomplished much, but it has not been able to stem the inexorable decline of global ecosystems. Thomashow, the former president of a college dedicated to sustainability, describes instead environmental learning, a term signifying that our relationship to the biosphere must be front and center in all aspects of our daily lives. In this illuminating book, he provides rationales, narratives, and approaches for doing just that.
Table of Contents
Part One: Why Environmental Learning Matters
1 The Past and Future of Environmental Learning
2 Memory Forever Unfolding
Part Two: Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene
3 The Tides of Change
4 Is the Anthropocene Blowing Your Mind?
Part Three: The Future of Environmental Learning
5 Constructive Connectivity (Ecological and Social Networks)
6 Migration (The Movement of People and Species)
7 Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism
Part Four: To Know the World
8 Improvisational Excellence
9 Perceptual Reciprocity
