Beyond Rio: Pursuing ‘Ecological Citizenship’

Beyond Rio: Pursuing ‘Ecological Citizenship’

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Andrew Revkin reflects on the end of the “Rio+20United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in his Dot Earth blog from the New York Times.

Ilan Safit, a colleague of mine at Pace University who teaches philosophy and religious studies with a focus on the environment, sees the focus of Rio and related discussions as too mechanistic, and skirting around the need for fostering a new kind of “ecological citizenship” as a precursor to progress on planet-scale environmental issues: