Category Archives: Environmental Philosophy

Integrated Agro-ecological Systems Land Use vs the ‘dis-integrated’ industrial machine

Posted on December 3, 2021 by cjkperley

There is a difference in kind between complex, integrated, low input, free range systems of land, soil, organic matter, fungi & macroinvertebrates, plants & animals, and …. ….. industrial high energy input feedlot systems which abuse each of those – … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on N. Scott Nomaday’s ‘An American Land Ethic’

Posted on October 19, 2021 by cjkperley

Our current framing of nature in within modern thought is to, first, objectify based on Cartesian ideas of thinking in either-or dualisms; and second, to focus on the material, as if meaning and ethics only resides within the material. These views are being challenged more and more by indigenous and eco-feminine philosophers.

Here’s one of them; N. Scott Nomaday. Continue reading →

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