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February 28, 2008
Eco-critique is concerned with changing things so as to live a more sustainable life. It was fringe dwelling cottage industry in academia for a couple of decades---until people started taking global warming seriously. Now it is centre stage and conference title such as Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World do not seem so left of field anymore, since an ecological mode of thinking or perspective with its caring for place is increasingly becoming a part of everyday life.
The Australian Humanities Review has an eco-corner, the earlier focus on ‘wilderness’ in Australia is shifting towards a greater concern with urban and rural ecologies, and a deeper concern to render our inhabitation of the planet more ecologically sustainable as well as socially just. So we have an ecology section of the Centre for public Culture and Ideas.
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Sustainable living is very important, obviously. But we have all been very short-sighted up until now.