{"title":"Against Lockdowns for the Climate and for a Theology of a Living Earth","authors":"M. Northcott","doi":"10.3828/mb.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000There is an eerie convergence in academic and media commentary between ‘public health’ policies in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic and policies to address climate change. Bruno Latour argues that unprecedented state control and surveillance of citizens in their homes, meetings and movements, are needed to address climate change. This claim rests on two assumptions. The first is that reducing carbon emissions is the way to address the modest increase in global temperatures since 1850 despite the failure of this approach to impact either atmospheric carbon or global warming. The second is that forcibly destroying the creative agencies of billions of people is good for human health and good for the health of the planet. Against the suppression of the agency of ordinary people in Covid-19 as a ‘solution’ to climate change I argue that ecological and climate crises can only be turned around when people, and other creaturely beings, recover their agency as co-creators and co-curators of their habitats and the cultural and material resources they need for human flourishing. Evidence from many domains indicates that it is the loss of such agency by ordinary people, and by other creatures, which is the key driver of ecosystem destruction. Its recovery involves restraining the industrial agencies which continue to wreck Gaia.","PeriodicalId":112091,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing: Volume 63, Issue 1","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115732267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemplative Practice in the Face of the Climate Crisis","authors":"P. Woodhouse","doi":"10.3828/mb.2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000As the climate and biodiversity crisis grows ever more serious, the article suggests five human reactions to climate change and the deeper responses they can provoke. It then explores what a contemplative practice can mean and how it can be a profound resource in coping with the despair that so many feel. This practice leads to a new relationship with the natural world. It assists in developing a new knowing, seeing and understanding, all of which confront the modern myths of consumer capitalism and human exceptionalism. Finally the article describes how contemplative practice leads to a way of living differently and becoming part of a different story.","PeriodicalId":112091,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing: Volume 63, Issue 1","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133243385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theology Past the Climate Tipping Point: What if it is Too Late to Stop Climate Change?","authors":"B. Sollereder","doi":"10.3828/mb.2022.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2022.2","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Most of ecotheology is, quite rightly, focused on the strategies that could help stop climate change. This article asks the pessimistic question: what if climate change is already past the point of no return? How should we think about the nature of global change, and what underlying assumptions tend to inform our approaches to climate-change rhetoric and decision making? This provocative article is intended to open up new ecotheological questions about the place of humans in life’s history while asking what hope remains in a world marked by significant climate change.","PeriodicalId":112091,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing: Volume 63, Issue 1","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122410182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It’s the ‘End Times’, Stupid! A Caribbean Theological Perspective on Climate Emergency","authors":"M. Lawes","doi":"10.3828/mb.2022.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2022.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a theological perspective on prevailing attitudes in and beyond the Caribbean Church and wider faith community, toward the notion of a climate emergency. While some believe the climate crisis is well past emergency status in the region and can envisage a falling out of cataclysmic proportions for the planet, should there be no significant changes or correction to current behaviours in response to the call of global and regional scientists, religious figures and environmental activists, there are others who either deny such a reality or hearken to beliefs about ‘end times’ and divine retribution. The Caribbean eco-dystopian novel, Daylight Come, provides an engaging backdrop for examining current regional responses to pressing environmental threats and potential consequences.","PeriodicalId":112091,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing: Volume 63, Issue 1","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126967830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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