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Lisa Kretz, "Emotional Solidarity" in Mourning Nature

Lisa Kretz, "Emotional Solidarity" in Cunsolo and Landman, Mourning Nature

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Lisa Kretz, "Emotional Solidarity" in Mourning Nature

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1 Oo Emotional Solidarity Ecological Emotional Outlaws ‘Mourning Environmental Loss and Empowering Positive Change Introduction: Justified Mourning ‘The ecologeal crisis provides no shortage of evidence for justified ‘mourning Fra non-exhaustive list, consider the following: overpopu lation (mote than 200,000 people added every day; global warming (Global ice cap meting, sea level re, inereasng catastrophe natural listers deforestation (3 milion acres annually; unsutainableagri- culture (the abominable treatment of non-human animals aside, cut rent farming practices are responsible for 70 per ent of the pollution ‘of United States rivers and streams); unsustainable transportation (2 single car emits 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every yeat in the orm of exhaust; inthe United States cars emit roughly the sime amount of carbon dioxide as coal-buming power plants); human-caused en vironmental acedents (eg. Exxon Valder and the BP Oil disaster} coal ‘mining (mountain top removal and strip mining invasive species (400 ‘ofthe endangered o58 specie liste inthe United States ae at risk be- ‘cause of competition with alien species overfishing (0 percent ofthe ‘ocean’ lage fish have been fished out oftheir natural habitats; and damming waterways (eservoirinduced seismicity refers eo dame caus- ‘ng earthquakes; the Three Gorges reservoir is bile over «wo major faul ines ~ hundreds of small remors have oceured snc it opened) (Sehwarzfld 20, ‘The Fith Assessment Report ofthe Integovernmental Panel on Cli mate Change attests to widespread scent agreement that humans ate, indeed, responsible for dangerous level of global climate change laPce 20m) Given tat ecological harms of unprecedented proportions continue dally, one can argue that an adequate response tothe global

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