The Ethics of Adaptation to Global Warming

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Check out Kathleen’s ferocious essay “The Ethics of Adaptation to Global Warming” at https://humansandnature.org/earth-ethic-kathleen-dean-moore/ 

“I want to call attention to the danger that the same moral failings that characterize climate change itself are being replicated and amplified in many of the plans to adapt to it—as if storm and extinction had taught us nothing about justice or reverence for life.”

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Hear Kathleen talk about a human-rights strategy to combat climate wrongs, podcast on the New Books Network, available here.

Announcing the release of Animal Dignity, with Kathleen’s essay “The Heart of the Scorpion,” about the moral power of the will to live.

On a new Spring Creek podcast, Kathleen tells a story about how W.S. Merwin’s prose poem, “Unchopping a Tree,” helped her and her students think through the question that possesses us all: How can one heart hold both a deep love for the natural world and the knowledge that it is being destroyed? https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hdWDdYefKdTcvToooDHHo

If you are looking for a holiday gift for your nature-loving and/or environmental-activist friends, please think of Kathleen’s Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers.

Join Kathleen Moore and Charles Goodrich in a discussion of his new novel, Weave Me a Crooked Basket, Monday, November 20 @ 7pm (PT) Powell’s City of Books

Here’s Kathleen’s hard-hitting article, “Clean Natural Gas is a Dirty Deception.”

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment just published Kathleen’s “The perilous and important art of definition: the case of the old-growth forest.” Read it here.

Earth’s Wild Music is a Chicago Review of Books Must-Read Book of the Month. Read the review here.

Read Kathleen’s new article, “How Big Oil is Manipulating How You Think about Climate Change,’ in Salon.com.

Kathleen and her colleague, Michael P. Nelson, apologize to the world for the damage done by racist and cruel Enlightenment philosophies. See “Did Philosophy Ruin the Earth? A philosopher’s letter of apology to the world” in Salon. 

Hear Kathleen speak about “Gratitude as a Way of Life” in the Natural History Institute’s Reciprocal Healing series.

Hear a new composition for English horn, based on Kathleen’s glacier essay, “The Sound of Mountains Melting,” from Earth’s Wild Music, written and performed by Chris Zatarain.

Three of Kathleen’s essays – “Swallows, Falling,” “Common Murre,” and “Dawn Chorus” are published in a new collection that celebrates birds, Dawn Songs, edited by Jamie K. Reaser and J. Drew Lanham.