After decades of catastrophe, environmentalism is gone from the public consciousness—but one day we will hear from it again. At the heart of environmentalism is a deeply religious question: is man the steward of nature, or a suppliant? In this radiocast we discuss the interaction between religiosity and environmentalism, the problems associated with both leftist and conservative views of nature, and a peculiar third alternative…
Tune in for this and many interesting tangents:
—“Deep Ecology”, Arne Naess, and the limits of left-wing environmentalism
—Lynn White Jr. and the Christian roots of the crisis
—DISAVOW: American hunting culture
—St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio
—Gary Snyder’s “citified mythology”, the domestication of the wild
—The Great Mother, primordial chaos, and Rudolf Otto’s numinous
—Romulus & Remus as a counter-myth to St. Francis
—Aldo Leopold’s wolf hunt, “Thinking Like a Mountain”
Music breaks:
Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus, Op. 61 (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra): II. Melancholy
Alan Hovhaness: And God Created Great Whales, op. 229, No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Calm at Sea
