Sasha Engelmann
As the conditions and paradigms of the global environmental crisis trans- form before our very eyes, a question emerges: How can environmental activism improve, when the conditions that challenge it are so new, vast, and abstract? How will the environmental movement change to meet the abstraction that is this crisis of human infrastructure, weather, and gas?
Sasha Engelmann answers these questions by turning our critical attention to the philosophical and cultural assumptions that have driven recent environmental protest groups such Greenpeace. If the environmentalist movement is to meet the crisis at hand, she argues, it must embrace a philosophy more amenable to the ‘new nature’ that is the world in warming. Instead of tailoring their rhetoric to the dark iconography of oil derricks, environmentalists might teach us to mark the experiential texture of living in a world of weather. —Scott Herndon
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