Tag Archives: Anthropocene

Anthropocene, Environmental Research, Human Rights, political theory, World Politics

How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations Between Humans and Nature

Sustainability Now! Podcast

Southern Resident Orcas are critically endangered despite legal protection

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The Rights of Nature is one way to rethink the relationships between humans and Nature, but are there other ways to think about those connections? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr. Rosalind Warner, professor of political science at Okanagan College in British Columbia and Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Project. Warner is studying the role of kinship metaphors in Earth System Law, with kinship connoting more ethical relationships among humans, Nature and earth’s non-human inhabitants. Earth System Law is an emerging body of legal precepts, principles and practices that bring together ethics and law with the planet’s dynamic physical and biological cycles. Tune in to hear a new take on human-nature relations.

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Anthropocene, climate, Disasters

Post-Anthropocene

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View video on CACOR‘s (Canadian Association for theClub of Rome) Youtube Channel.

Covid-19 disrupted the world in unimaginable ways.  Future disasters may be even worse.  Some argue human societies have left the Holocene Epoch and entered the Anthropocene. How might our perceptions of the human-nature relationship now change, and how might we improve policy, governance, and planning? [Note: one correction has been made to the slide set available on the CACOR website–there were 5 mass extinctions in the last 5oo million years. Ed.]