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Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of
Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society
in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the
survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social
justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global
audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The
notion of the Anthropocene as a geological age shaped by human
intervention implies a new understanding of the human context that
influences the physical and biological sciences. Human existence
continues to be affected by the physical and biological reality
from which it evolved but, in turn, it affects that reality as
well. This work addresses this paradox by bringing together the
contributions of researchers from very different disciplines in
conversation about the complex relationships between the
physical/biological world and the human world to offer different
perspectives and solutions in establishing social and environmental
justice in the age of the Anthropocene.
Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of
Anthropocene addresses three imminent challenges to human society
in the age of the Anthropocene. The first challenge involves the
survival of the species; the second the breakdown of social
justice; and the third the inability of the media to provide global
audiences with an adequate orientation about these issues. The
notion of the Anthropocene as a geological age shaped by human
intervention implies a new understanding of the human context that
influences the physical and biological sciences. Human existence
continues to be affected by the physical and biological reality
from which it evolved but, in turn, it affects that reality as
well. This work addresses this paradox by bringing together the
contributions of researchers from very different disciplines in
conversation about the complex relationships between the
physical/biological world and the human world to offer different
perspectives and solutions in establishing social and environmental
justice in the age of the Anthropocene.
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment,
and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the
demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy
dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that
we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate
worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and
narratives to stimulate over-consumption and to distract us from
the consequences of rampant consumerism, while remaining silent
about the systematic destruction of the environment and our future.
Academicians from the across the sciences, the social sciences, the
arts, and the humanities engage in an interdisciplinary discussion
informed by a vision of an interconnected humanity and focused on
the role of the media in forging public discourse. Contributors to
the collection argue that today's media are failing humanity.
Rather than providing pictures of reality on which the world's
citizens can act, the corporate-controlled media are widely used as
instruments of commercial and political propaganda, creating an
immense web of images and narratives that their creators know to be
not true--fabrications designed to sell, to manipulate, in a sense
to enslave worldwide audiences. At the core of the discussion in
this book is a utopian vision of one unified humanity-billions of
people whose destinies and dreams are imbricated and
interdependent, and who share the same world, the same habitats. It
is a vision of a world that cherishes diversity but is also
united-a world where our differences are no longer a cause for
conflict and where separate countries or separate ethnic or
religious communities no longer have to compete or wage war to
exploit available resources. As extensions of humans, the media can
be instruments of salvation instead of destruction, liberation
instead of oppression. But first, we must recognize the challenges
we face.
This is a collection of essays about the media, the environment,
and the whole of humanity at the brink of extinction. As the
demands of overpopulation and of an unsustainable consumer economy
dry up existing natural resources and destroy vital ecosystems that
we need to survive, the corporate-controlled media saturate
worldwide audiences with a barrage of hypnotic images and
narratives to stimulate over-consumption and to distract us from
the consequences of rampant consumerism, while remaining silent
about the systematic destruction of the environment and our future.
Academicians from the across the sciences, the social sciences, the
arts, and the humanities engage in an interdisciplinary discussion
informed by a vision of an interconnected humanity and focused on
the role of the media in forging public discourse. Contributors to
the collection argue that today's media are failing humanity.
Rather than providing pictures of reality on which the world's
citizens can act, the corporate-controlled media are widely used as
instruments of commercial and political propaganda, creating an
immense web of images and narratives that their creators know to be
not true--fabrications designed to sell, to manipulate, in a sense
to enslave worldwide audiences. At the core of the discussion in
this book is a utopian vision of one unified humanity-billions of
people whose destinies and dreams are imbricated and
interdependent, and who share the same world, the same habitats. It
is a vision of a world that cherishes diversity but is also
united-a world where our differences are no longer a cause for
conflict and where separate countries or separate ethnic or
religious communities no longer have to compete or wage war to
exploit available resources. As extensions of humans, the media can
be instruments of salvation instead of destruction, liberation
instead of oppression. But first, we must recognize the challenges
we face.
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