Environmental Philosophy

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published on January 9, 2020

Michael Marder

What Needs to Change in Our Thinking about Climate Change (and about Thinking)

In this article I argue that, the consciousness of climate change will remain wanting, unless it reaches all the way to the level of self-consciousness. Interrelating the meanings of “climate” and “thinking,” I suggest that only an approach that shuns subjective mastery and distance will be adequate to this peculiar non-object.