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Posted on February 9, 2020January 25, 2023
Barbara Lepani
Commentary, Our Collective

Coming Together for a Just Transition

Mridula Amin's article in ABC Online 9 February points to the way in which the summer bushfires have brought communities together across the political divide between those focused on coal mining jobs and cheap energy prices, and those concerned about the impact of global warming on the whole socio-environmental system, and the need to reduce [...]

Freya Mathews: The Epistemic and Cultural Challenge

Conflicting Worldviews Barbara Lepani—in her Opinion article on revisioning conservation for the ABC Religion and Ethics Report (18 Dec 2019), Professor Freya Mathews, a patron of the Wild Mountain Collective, also discusses the important difference between the modern Western idea of 'law' and the idea of 'Law' in Aboriginal culture. We see this playing out [...]

Sally Gillespie, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves

Lorraine Shannon, Wild Mountain Collective Seminars Coordinator Many authors write powerfully and insightfully on climate change and grief. Sally Gillespie’s recently published Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves is the one I have chosen for this month’s quotes. Among the range of vital issues this book addresses, it holds out to us [...]

Month: February 2020

Coming Together for a Just Transition

Freya Mathews: The Epistemic and Cultural Challenge

Sally Gillespie, Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves