Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
This film investigates the crises facing China’s environment from the perspectives of four activists.
The documentary follows trials and antics of the captain and crew from the radical activist Sea Shepherd Conversation Society, as they carry out campaigns on the ocean to save sea mammals.
This film examines the life of a German town some decades after a nuclear plant inspired nationwide resistance.
Laura Westra discusses biotechnology and transgenics in agriculture and aquaculture from a perspective of ecosystem integrity.
Tony Lynch and David Wells assert their objections to the idea of a non-anthropocentric ethic of nature.
David Schmidtz argues that “the philosophies of both conservation and preservationism can fail by their own lights, since trying to put their respective principles of conservationism or preservationism into institutional practice can have results that are the opposite of what the respective philosophies tell us we ought to be trying to achieve.”
J. Baird Callicott explains how the concept of intrinsic value from environmental ethics has contributed to reshaping discourses of environmental activism and policy.
Responding to conference papers on aesthetics and environmentalism, this essay argues that sound environmental policy should begin with basic questions about the purpose and extent of human life.