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Through the Portal of COVID-19

An Open Letter on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sinan Akilli (Cappadocia University) argues for the need to address the more-than-human world in the context of sustainability science

Environmental humanities researcher Steven Hartman reflects on the challenges facing scientists and educators as they face the growing dilemma of science obfuscation, disinformation and organized climate change denial from the fossil-fuel industry and, increasingly administration the U.S. federal government under the Trump. This dilemma, he notes, is one that affects other sectors in society as well and there are lessons that can be learned from how these challenges are being met.

Environmental humanities researcher Steven Hartman discusses the Our Children’s Trust case, Juliana vs. the United States of America, as the kind of innovative thinking and novel approach necessary to counteract government failures to act on climate change. Author Naomi Klein has called the lawsuit, now set to go to trial on 5 February 2018, “the most important case in the world.”

Environmental humanities researcher Steven Hartman reflects on some of the ways that individuals can have far-reaching effects globally in climate change mitigation efforts by banding together with neighbors, friends, family and colleagues to focus on smaller and more manageable local challenges.

Environmental Humanities scholar Christopher Oscarson reflects on on the nature of food production and consumption and how discussing an activity as basic as eating with his students opens up a range of ethical questions about the nature of food production and human-environmental relations.

The products and by-products of petroleum can be found throughout our societies, in objects we encounter every day, the byways and highways we navigate between home and work or school, even in our own bodies. Environmental humanities scholar Stephanie LeMenager elaborates the concept of petroculture.