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Introduction: What You Don't Know Does Protect You, Rebecca Roose
Introduction: What You Don't Know Does Protect You, Rebecca Roose
Natural Resources Journal
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Introduction: Property In Ecology, Jonathan H. Adler
Introduction: Property In Ecology, Jonathan H. Adler
Natural Resources Journal
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New Materialism: An Ontology For The Anthropocene, Melinda Harm Benson
New Materialism: An Ontology For The Anthropocene, Melinda Harm Benson
Natural Resources Journal
This article argues that the Anthropocene is not simply a new geologic epoch; it is an opportunity to embrace a new ontology. In it, we can reconfigure our orientation to the material world. The current, dominant ontology casts humans as villains responsible for mass extinctions, polluted oceans, and climate change. This ontology reinforces a familiar binary—one in which humans are separate from and doing things to nature. Humans are ruining the planet, causing it to fundamentally change in ways that are not “natural” precisely because humans are the agent of change. This view is perhaps best described by environmentalist Bill …