scholarly journals Ethics in Aesthetics: Eco-Spiritual and Elemental Symbolism in Thangka Paintings

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Панкадж Гупта
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Relational Values ◽  
Ecological Attributes ◽  
Cognitive Values ◽  
The World ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

Изучая древние цивилизации, мы видим, что первобытный человек жил в гармонии с природой и уважал ее творения. Живопись, скульптура, архитектурные элементы и все изощренные формы искусства черпают вдохновение из природы, воплощают любовь к ней, восхищение ею и этику ее сохранения. Экодуховность возникает из осознания космичности мира, и ее популярность сегодня растет в связи с необходимостью пересмотреть отношения человека с природой, которая деградирует в ходе нарастающего экологического кризиса, изменения климата, глобального потепления. Буддизм, одна из древнейших мировых религий, подчеркивал ценность не только живых существ, но и их жизненного пространства. Картины танка используются для продвижения и усвоения идей буддизма среди учеников и монахов для описания исторических событий, иллюстрирования мифов, связанных с божествами, и описания полезных этно-биологических аспектов лекарственных растений и животных. Экодуховные элементы постоянно присутствовали в картинах танка и широко использовались в них, чтобы привить мысль о сохранении природы. На танка мы видим деревья, лианы, кусты, травы множество животных, таких как лошади, олени, слоны, львы, тигры, павлины и т. д. Все это демонстрирует глубокие связи между человеком и всеми творениями природы, и поэтому новое прочтение танка может помочь в выявлении пробелов современной человеческой цивилизации. В данной статье рассматривается экодуховная символика в картинах танка. The ancient civilizations of the world show how the primitive man lived in harmony with the nature and respected its elements. Painting, sculpture, architectural adornment, and the ornate art forms draw inspiration from nature and consequently impersonate love, admiration, and ethics of conservation. Eco-spirituality emerges from a realization of cosmic world and gaining the popularity owing to a need for reconsidering mans bond with nature, which has enfeebled due to growing environmental crisis, climate change, global warming that need to be handled. Buddhism, one of the ancient religions of the world, laid emphasis not only for valuing the living beings but also for their living spaces. Thangka are used to instil aspects of Buddhism among the learners and monks, describe the historical events, illustrate myths linked with the deities, and depict the useful ethno-biological aspects of medicinal plants and animals. Eco-spiritual elements remained the theme of Thangka paintings and are extensively used in these to instil the thought of conservation of ecology. A number of trees, creepers, shrubs, herbs are painted in Thangka paintings. In addition to this, the Thangka paintings depict a number of animals like, horses, deer, elephants, lions, tigers, peacock, etc. Relational values convey the connection between an individual and ecological attributes and this can help in recognizing the gaps and realizing the faults on the part of human civilization. The understanding of deep cognitive values hidden in the artwork, when appreciated and valued can provide an inclusive answer for negotiating suitable outcomes. This paper examines the eco-spiritual and elemental symbolism in Thangka paintings.

scholarly journals Effects of climate change on environmental sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Manuela Tvaronavičienė
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
The World

Adaptation strategies to the climate change include measures that can be taken to take account of the new climatic conditions. This paper aims at assessing the effects of climate change on environmental sustainability. This sustainability constitutes a major problem in many countries and regions around the world that experience industrial pollution, degradation of land as well as natural disasters caused by the global warming. The paper shows that adaptation strategies are often parallel strategies that can be integrated simultaneously with the management of natural resources. They can make resources more efficient and resilient to climate change. The paper shows that reducing the carbon footprint by more than 50 percent by 2030 and eliminating it by 2050 might be a viable solution how to tackle the climate change and support the environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals Conservation of Plants and Trees in the Light of Prophetic Teachings

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Sumaira Nawaz ◽  
Dr. Shah Moeen ud Din Hashmi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Problems

Article endeavors to analyze the prophetic guiding principles regarding human behaviors related to plants and trees being an important component of our environment. The discussion mainly deals with the key environmental issues emphasizing plantation and its significance for balancing the equilibrium of the environment. Additionally, it thrashes out that humans are urged to seedling the plantation even the world is to be ended in Islam. The present study is delimited to the present ecological crises faced by society and a great challenge to the globe. The current ecological problems i.e global warming and climate change are interpreted just to analyze the environmental behaviors in Hadith literature. However, a profundity descriptive study has been conducted in the most influential way to examine the prophetic rules for human behaviors related to trees and plants being environment friendly. Furthermore, the existing practices of humans related to such an environmental sphere also been aptly figure out to highlight all possible ways in the light of prophetic guidance to deal with prevailing environmental issues. Inconsistency between religious teachings and human behaviors need the keen interest of religious scholars and social scientists to carefully harmonize both for maintaining the ecological balance in nature.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Philip Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Climate History ◽  
Accurate Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
Better Than

My own interest in the topics of this book dates back a good many years. In fact, it predates the emergence of the modern field of climate history, or the identification of global warming as an incipient menace. In saying that, I am claiming no status as a prodigy, still less a prophet. Rather, in my teenage years, I read a great deal of speculative fiction, science fiction, in which themes of climate change and cataclysm have long percolated, at least since the latter years of the nineteenth century. We can debate how accurate the scientific analyses or predictions were in many of these works—in many cases, the level of accurate knowledge was minimal—but those works had the inordinate advantage of thinking through the human and cultural consequences of catastrophe, commonly speculating about religious dimensions. Obviously, some works succeeded better than others in that regard, but the essential project was critically important. If we are foretelling that the world will be assailed by lethal menaces, then we cannot fail to go on to imagine what the political or cultural consequences would or should be....

Global Warming

Antarctica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Day
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Polar Bears ◽  
The World

How vulnerable to climate change are Antarctica’s fauna? Antarctica’s fauna are very vulnerable to climate change. All we have to do is look at the penguins. With the recent dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic, the world has focused on whether polar bears are...

Climate Fiction and the World Literary System

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-74
Author(s):  
Andrew Milner ◽  
J.R. Burgmann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Perceived Vulnerability ◽  
System P ◽  
Green Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Fiction ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Structural Determinant

The chapter opens with a discussion of two early instances of global warming cli-fi, Arthur Herzog’s Heat and George Turner’s The Sea and Summer, and argues that both are more or less oblivious to the wider world beyond their respective national frontiers. It proceeds to elaborate an account of the place of SF in the world literary system, understood in Wallerstein and Moretti’s terms as comprising a core, semi-periphery and periphery. This model is then applied more specifically to cli-fi, distinguishing between structural and conjunctural determinants of the evolution of the sub-genre. The main structural determinant, it argues, will be the world SF system. But this may be either countered or reinforced by one or more of three main conjunctural factors: the degree of perceived vulnerability to extreme climate change of any particular national political economy; the salience of Green politics within any particular national polity; and the salience of climate change within broader environmentalist discussions in any particular national culture. The chapter concludes with critical accounts of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital trilogy, Frank Schätzing’s Der Schwarm, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and Antti Tuomainen’s Parantaja.

scholarly journals Global Deliberative Democracy and Climate Change: Insights from World Wide Views on Global Warming in Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Riedy ◽  
Jade Herriman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
Deliberative System ◽  
The World ◽  
Change Response

On 26 September 2009, approximately 4,000 citizens in 38 countries participated in World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews). WWViews was an ambitious first attempt to convene a deliberative mini-public at a global scale, giving people from around the world an opportunity to deliberate on international climate policy and to make recommendations to the decision-makers meeting at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15) in December 2009. In this paper, we examine the role that deliberative mini-publics can play in facilitating the emergence of a global deliberative system for climate change response. We pursue this intent through a reflective evaluation of the Australian component of the World Wide Views on Global Warming project (WWViews). Our evaluation of WWViews is mixed. The Australian event was delivered with integrity and feedback from Australian participants was almost universally positive. Globally, WWViews demonstrated that it is feasible to convene a global mini-public to deliberate on issues of global relevance, such as climate change. On the other hand, the contribution of WWViews towards the emergence of a global deliberative system for climate change response was limited and it achieved little influence on global climate change policy. We identify lessons for future global mini-publics, including the need to prioritise the quality of deliberation and provide flexibility to respond to cultural and political contexts in different parts of the world. Future global mini-publics may be more influential if they seek to represent discourse diversity in addition to demographic profiles, use designs that maximise the potential for transmission from public to empowered space, run over longer time periods to build momentum for change and experiment with ways of bringing global citizens together in a single process instead of discrete national events.

US backsliding will drag on global climate progress

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Climate Action

Subject The Paris Agreement and US withdrawal. Significance President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change on June 1, prompting criticism from around the world. While current pledges are unlikely to change and the agreement will not see flight or withdrawal by other countries, US withdrawal imperils the ability of the agreement’s structure to accelerate climate action to a scale necessary to meet its objective of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees centigrade by 2100. Impacts The US private sector and sub-national polities will increase their climate action, though the loss of federal support will still be felt. A future US administration could re-enter the agreement, but substantial momentum will be lost diplomatically in the intervening years. Calls for greater adaptation -- rather than mitigation -- funds from climate-vulnerable states will grow more strident.

scholarly journals Passive downdraught evaporative cooling: principles and practice

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Ford
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Evaporative Cooling ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

Air conditioning is now recognized as a significant factor in global warming and climate change. In the search for alternatives, passive downdraught evaporative cooling (PDEC) is proving to be both technically and economically viable in different parts of the world. Brian Ford describes the principles and current practice of this innovative approach to cooling in the hot dry regions of the world.

scholarly journals Can the Cop21 Stop the Rise of CO2s

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. p14
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
Irreversible Change ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
Environmental Process ◽  
Coal Power

The UN Climate Change Conference COP 25 is a huge international reunion to attempt to enact with unanimity policies that counteract global warming or its effects. Can such really overcome the difficult problematic of collective action inherent in providing global public good? The Global Environmental Process runs meeting after meeting-no results. The global thermometer keeps rising, as Co2s do not decrease. The first manifestations of Hawking’s irreversible change have appeared around the world. Only one major non-incremental policy would make a difference: close down coal power.

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