Responsibility

This note is about the responsibility for the current crisis and future action.

Responsibility for climate change and the environmental collapse

Universities

Colleges and universities have played a fundamental role in the problems now facing the planet.

  • Focused on the conquest of nature
  • Prioritised the knowledge that misfits the planet

David W. Orr, Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Holmes Rolston, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988).

Design