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"The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land." is a quote from this environmental humanities text by this author.
What is "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold?
"Except for a small amount that's been incinerated...every bit of plastic manufactured in the world for the last 50 years or so still remains. It's somewhere in the environment. That half-century's total production now surpasses 1 billion tons." This quote quantifies what Tim Morton might call this term he coined for the environmental humanities.
What is hyperobject?
Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place argues that this social activity is a continued residue of colonialism in impoverished island countries.
What is luxury tourism?
The logical value that could be ascribed to the claim that "In Annie Dillard's article "Seeing," her idea about seeing pennies, expresses the same worship of money that "T" from How the Dead Dream had as a child." is this term of the true/false binary.
What is false?
"There were three elephants in the last zoo he broke into, all of them female and retired from circus life. It was still common for circus elephants to be beaten: for how else could an animal that weighed five tons be persuaded to stand on a stool on one leg? Domination had made the elephants resentful. Then there was their imprisonment, for in the wild they lived by walking. Walking was how they measured the passage of time. Here they were confined to cages; harassed by jabbering primates with long sticks; made to stand for endless hours on concrete, to suffer the indolence and aching muscles of eating food off the ground. In the wild they rose to take their food from the treetops; they did not nose around for it in the dirt. All of this filled them with a massive and brooding rage." is a quote from this popular novel and by this author.
What is How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet.
This character in Karen Tai Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest made his original barefoot pilgrimage to the Matacao to fulfill a promise to Gilberto's mother.
Who is Chico Paco?
After "T" hit the coyote in Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream, he surprised himself by feeling a great deal of sadness about the fact that a development he was building had caused the probable extinction of this group of animals.
What are kangaroo rats?
"Someone had tried very hard to keep others out. I thought of the Crawler and the words on the wall. I thought of the fixation with the lighthouse in the fragments left by the last expedition. But despite these discordant elements, I was glad to reach the shadow of the cool, dank wall on the landward side of the lighthouse." is a quote from this popular novel.
What is Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer?
"Then there was the growing concern over the mining process of Matacao plastic. The chemical runoff from GGG's secret technique had been collected and analyzed and found to cause genetic mutations in rats after five generations." is a quote from this novel by this author.
What is Through the Arc of the Rainforest by Karen Tai Yamashita?
Who is H.P. Lovecraft?
The logical value that could be ascribed to the claim that "The Biologist in Jeff Vandermeer's novel was the last person from the 12 expedition to be contaminated by fungi in Area X." is this term of the true/false binary.
What is false?
Environmental degradation of Antigua, a disaster at a nuclear plant, and the disintegration of the Matacao can all be described by this critical category from the environmental humanities.
What is Slow Violence?
On his journey toward empathy, "T" in How the Dead Dream ultimately abandons his childhood admiration for this Greek philosophical tradition.
What is stoicism?
Drew Latham hopes to encourage this group of people to get involved in nature.
This term accounts for the worldwide spread of capitalism and the increasingly interconnected nature of different nation-states including increased trade, migration, war, cultural exchange, and communication.
What is globalization?
William Cronon's critique of the wilderness suggests that this category was problematic because it contributed to ignoring the nature outside your door.
What is the Romantic Sublime?
In addition to illustrating ideas of weather and microclimates, Lauren Redniss's Thunder and Lightning explores the possibilities of this controversial practice as a means of navigating through anthropogenic climate change.
What is geoengineering?
In Blind Huber, Nick Flynn imagines an interconnected worldview among bees, flowers, and humans which echoes ideas from these two schools of thought.
What are ecology and Buddhism?
In Guardian of Fukushima, Naoto Murumoto selflessly decides not to wait until these harmful metrics were safe before returning to his home to care for the animals left behind.
What are radioactivity levels?
After graduating from Emory University, Chris McCandless abandoned these things in order to make his journey to Alaska as described in Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild.
This pronoun is used rhetorically in Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place".
What is you?
When Kazumasa visits the poor community where Lourdes lives, he discovers a place, not of depravity and sadness, but of these two categories.
What are community and care?
This author promoted the idea that we need to cultivate reciprocity with the earth rather than simply seeing it as a resource as many indigenous communities did in the past.
"When I was a child on Bluff View, the dogs we call bloodhounds, the slave trackers' tools, were nothing I knew to remember. I was a girl-child in that kingdom of open space and all the land I could see and name and touch was mine to love. No one, no thing possessed another, nothing was developed apart from my heart." is a quote from this essay by this author.
What is "Writing Home" by Camille Dungy?