If I might add-- because it often is forgotten-- the arts are part of how we create culture and culture is how we interact with the environment. Within the arts-- language is how we know the world. We cannot have systemic and sustainable change without the arts. The arts create community and give us new eyes to see the world. They give us access to imagination and empathy. Through the arts we are able to think beyond the confines of this moment. At a time when corporate propaganda is playing 24- 7 on our news, the arts offer resistance, revitalized language and perspective, access to critical thinking.
And yes, interdisciplinary work is necessary-- we no longer get to play the game of one thing being more important than another. Every single thing matters, all at once. It always did. Melissa Tuckey On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Tony Del Plato <tonydelpl...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's all about ecology. The relationship between economics culture > environment everything > > > On Dec 8, 2017 11:21 AM, "Regi Teasley" <rltcay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Environmental Sociology and Cultural Geography should be part of the >> conversation. Interdisciplinary work can be very fruitful. >> Perhaps, like massive stars, some species (ahem) have dazzling, short >> lives. >> >> Regi >> >> "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love >> everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things." Dostoyevsky. >> >> >> On Dec 7, 2017, at 9:23 PM, Ben Haller <bhal...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> That’s a neat question. Nowadays there are some schools offering >> degrees in sustainability studies; I’m not sure what that actually >> constitutes, in terms of what you do academically. In any case, back when >> I was 18 that didn’t exist. :-> Back then – maybe economics? That’s what >> it all really comes down to, in my opinion. Economics encompasses all >> sorts of questions about what humans prefer and value, where those >> preferences come from and what influences them, how those preferences >> interact with politics, and how it ends up structuring society. And that’s >> where the solutions likely reside, too, in my opinion, because in the end >> most people respond to incentives. If the economic structure of society >> rewards them for selfishness, pollution, etc., then that is what most >> people will end up doing. If it rewards them for sharing, recycling, etc., >> then that is what most people will end up doing. So the things that I >> think are likely to provide real solutions will come from economics – >> things like a carbon tax, things that manipulate the incentives to which >> people respond. But I agree that it would really have to end up being >> multi-discliplinary; maybe economics with minors in ecology, sociology, and >> political theory? :-> >> >> Cheers, >> -B. >> >> >> On Dec 8, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Joe Nolan <jcn_ith...@twc.com> wrote: >> >> >> Interesting. Speaks to a question I've long pondered, which is, if I >> could go back to being 18 and wanted to study the overall human-planet >> relationship and how to improve it, what academic field would I enter? It >> seems the academic factions have been calcified for so long that there's >> really nobody studying this most-important-of-all phenomena. A few isolated >> philosophy or anthropology classes maybe? I suppose ecological economics, >> as far as that goes - but as far as I'm aware it doesn't address the >> cultural issues that Joe Brewer is talking about. >> >> >> >> >> On 12/6/2017 7:25 PM, Gay Nicholson wrote: >> >> >I'd like to recommend an article on cultural evolution by Joe Brewer >> <https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-complexity-of-cultural-evolution-63e28e117f6b> >> . >> >> >> >> >> -- Coordinator, Eco-Justice Poetry Project Split This Rock <http://www.splitthisrock.org> For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
