scholarly journals Only the Voice of the Other: Science, Power, and Diversity’s Revolt in the Museum—A Manifesto of Sorts

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
W. Warner Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
The Voice

While the importance of including diverse perspectives in museum programming has received considerable attention in the cultural realm, the same cannot be said for environmental science topics. In science and natural history museums, exhibitions on issues such as global climate change and loss of biodiversity are frequently narrowly defined in relation to an equally narrow perception of what constitutes environmental science. Because the facts of science in museums are still largely told by science curators, the voices of non-scientists are largely absent on such issues. As museum professionals, we must work to ensure that a diversity of perspectives is represented on environmental issues in our museums and on the capacity of our publics to participate in the presentation of environmental topics. We must support the public’s collective “power-to” (as John Holloway has termed it) have a voice in environmental programming.

scholarly journals MÁS ALLÁ DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO: IMPLICACIONES DE LA CONTAMINACIÓN MARINA POR AGROQUÍMICOS SOBRE LAS INTERACCIONES SIMBIÓTICAS Y EL ÉXITO ECOLÓGICO DE LOS CORALES

e-CUCBA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
HECTOR OCAMPO-ALVAREZ ◽  
FABIAN ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ-ZARAGOZA
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
External Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Symbiotic Interactions ◽  
Coral Reef Ecosystems ◽  
The One

Coral reefs are highly productive marine ecosystems that harborahigh biodiversity. The forming organisms of these reefs are the scleractinian corals, which form symbiotic interactions with multiple microorganisms. One of the best known symbiotic interactions in these systems is the one established with the microalgae Symbiodinium. The microalgae produce through photosynthesis up to 90% of the energy required by the coral. On the other hand, Symbiodiniumreceives from the coral an appropriate niche, that protects Symbiodiniumfrom the external environment, from the competition with other organisms and predation; it also provides abundant nutrients produced by other coral symbiontshighlighting the bacteria. As well as this, multiple symbiotic interactions confer metabolic capabilities to corals, which have enabled their capacity to adapt to climate changes for millions of years. However, in recent decades coral reef ecosystems are being extensively decimated. Given the new characteristics of an environment with significant changes sometimes somewhat erratic, probably the interactions that initially provided ecological advantages to corals are no longer sufficient to overcome environmental adversities or that as a result of the changes generated in the environment. The diversity of microorganisms capable of interactions that can be formed with the few remaining microorganisms do not confer to the coral, sufficient adaptative advantages to face the challenge of climate change. In this essay, we argue about the possibility that a decrease in the stock of microorganisms capable of interacting with corals, as a result of marine pollution, is a cause of the loss of biological aptitude of corals to survive in the current global climate change.

Translating physiological signals to changes in feeding behaviour in mammals and the future effects of global climate change

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben D. Moore ◽  
Natasha L. Wiggins ◽  
Karen J. Marsh ◽  
M. Denise Dearing ◽  
William J. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Secondary Metabolites ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Nutrient Intake ◽  
Feeding Behaviour ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Plant Secondary Metabolites ◽  
The Other ◽  
Physiological Signals ◽  
The Impact

Mammals cannot avoid ingesting secondary metabolites, often in significant amounts. Thus, their intake must be regulated to avoid intoxication. Three broad mechanisms have been described by which this can be achieved. These are conditioned aversions mediated by nausea, non-conditioned aversions and the recognition of limits to detoxification. Although there is some overlap between these, we know little about the way that mechanisms of toxin avoidance interact with regulation of nutrient intake and whether one has priority over the other. Nonetheless, regulation of meal length and inter-meal length allows the intake of some plant secondary metabolites to be matched with an animal’s capacity for detoxification and its nutritional requirements. Toxicity itself is not a fixed limitation and recent work suggests that ambient temperature can be a major determinant of the toxicity of plant secondary metabolites, largely through effects on liver function. These effects are likely to be of major importance in predicting the impact of global climate change on herbivores.

scholarly journals Environmental Physics: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew N. O. Sadiku ◽  
Tolulope J. Ashaolu ◽  
Abayomi Ajayi-Majebi ◽  
Sarhan M. Musa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Environmental Processes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Environmental Physics

Physics is essential for understanding natural phenomena. It provides a basis for understanding the impact of humans on the environment. This understanding is essential for environmental stewardship. Environmental physics is essentially the applications of the principles of physics to environmental processes and problems. Environmental physicists use the principles and techniques of physics to study the earth’s environment. They have made significant contributions to understanding global climate change and other environmental issues. This paper provides an introduction to environmental physics.

scholarly journals ‘Age of Lovecraft’?—Anthropocene Monsters in (New) Weird Narrative

Nordlit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gry Ulstein
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
First Century ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Weird Fiction ◽  
Twenty First Century

This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and weird fiction can be read as a conceptual parallel to the Anthropocene epoch, taking Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Age of Lovecraft as a starting-point. The assumption is that the two ‘ages’ are historically and thematically linked through the ‘monsters’ that inhabit them; monsters that include—but are not limited to—extensions, reproductions, and evolutions of Lovecraft’s writings. Preoccupied with environmental issues such as global climate change, the twenty-first-century imaginary has conjured monsters that appear to have much in common with early twentieth-century cosmic horror stories. Considering the renewed interest in Lovecraft and the weird, such developments raise the question: What can (weird) monsters tell us about the Anthropocene moment? This paper maps the ‘monstrous’ in the discourses emerging from the Anthropocene epoch and ‘The Age of Lovecraft’ by considering (new) weird narratives from contemporary literature, graphic novels, film, TV, and video games. Mindful of on-going discussions within ecocriticism, philosophy, and critical theory, the paper discusses a handful of unconventional texts to investigate the potential of the weird for expressing Anthropocene anxieties and for approaching nonhuman realities from new angles.

scholarly journals COP Paris is an incomplete agreement [1], we need a complete agreement, that will probably is COP Hanoi

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
To Come ◽  
Near Future

We need a complete agreement to implement the fight against global climate change as quickly and efficiently as possible, and Nguyen Dan, a Vietnamese citizen, announced the successful research, it’s the project “overcoming the greenhouse effect to combat global climate change, protecting the living environment” [2-6]. This new method can be seen the Vietnamese method [4, 5]. Thus an international meeting in Hanoi to discuss the work that COP Paris has not completed is probably understandable. On the other hand, the Vietnamese people are very friendly and hospitable, the political and social environment in Vietnam is very secure, Hanoi has organized many successful international meetings. From here in this article I will call COP Hanoi temporarily to mention this necessary meeting in the near future to come to a complete agreement.

Posthumanist Responsibility

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Face ◽  
Collective Agent

The issue of responsibility in connection with global climate change is especially challenging. “I didn’t melt that glacier.” And yet, very likely “we” did, even though there is no collective “we” that acted. The more we know about the excessively large typical Western carbon footprint, the more easily we each can feel guilty— bout travel, our lifestyle, our food, and so on. This experience cuts through the lack of a collective agent through some such idea as participation. Fundamental questions about responsibility are pursued, in the face of doubts about the agent-as-subject, from posthumanists, new materialists, Heidegger, Derrida, feminists, deep ecologists, and others. The landscape of such responsibilities as we may suppose we have is sketched out, arguing that we need both traditional accounts of responsibility that can charge CEOs with culpable negligence, as well as a deeper sense of response-ability, involving imagination, and a multi-faceted openness to the Other.

Organising the unthinkable in times of crises: Will climate engineering become the weapon of last resort in the Anthropocene?

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Lederer ◽  
Judith Kreuter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Climate Engineering ◽  
Technical Feasibility ◽  
Development Stages

In this article, we ask how the approaches of climate engineering – mostly highly technological approaches to address the challenge of global climate change – might be organised in the age of the Anthropocene. We understand the term ‘Anthropocene’ to be characterised by crisis, on one hand, and by promise, on the other. In particular, we aim to raise doubts on the dominant perspective on the organisation of climate engineering, which assumes these approaches to be regulated through legalistic means. Drawing an analogy to the early development stages of nuclear weapons, we point out that, instead of following a legalistic rationale, climate engineering organisation might pursue a logic of technical feasibility, political acceptance and bureaucratic momentum.

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