Global Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Environmental Humanities and the Challenges of Anthropocene

Kailey Nickson^* Department of Social Sciences, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Toronto, Canada
^*Correspondence: Kailey Nickson, Department of Social Sciences, Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University, Toronto, Canada, Email:

Received: 03-Jan-2022, Manuscript No. GJISS-22-13; Editor assigned: 05-Jan-2022, Pre QC No. GJISS-22-13; Reviewed: 19-Jan-2022, QC No. GJISS-22-13; Revised: 24-Jan-2022, Manuscript No. GJISS-22-13; Published: 31-Jan-2022, DOI: 10.35248/2319-8834/22.11.013

Description

Environmental Humanities is that the urgent environmental obstacle that stretch from the geological to the biological are also necessary social and cultural issues deeply inter woven with economic and political schemes and thus demand solutions on many proportions. These dimensions include building new environmental imaginaries, formulating new digressive operations, and making changes in economic and political structures. The ongoing anthropogenic process and their various combinations overall many levels not only of human wellbeing but also the wellbeing of all planetary life. Hence, the importance of moral as well as critical reflection with regard to the wounded body of the planet by human activities. In the same vein, science studies scholars Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker issue a stern warning trip into the planet’s rhythms, cycles and related to one another as the civilization we have created is doing signals human folly not mastery. For one, the Earth system is ultimately unpredictable and more powerful than humanity’s actions’. Such warnings have solicited intersectional academic responses to the damaged habitats and beings. The spirit underlying these acknowledement is lucidly expressed by what Stephanie LeMenager and Stephanie Foote have called ‘the sustainable humanities’ humanities that ‘can also confront hyperindustrial modernity in the era of unconventional energy mining, of fracking, tar sands, and mountaintop excision, with the traditiponal but none the less ecological concept of civic responsibility’.

The Environmental Humanities veer off the idea of culture and education as ‘Intangible’ abstractions. At once they lay bare the production processes and impacts of their own means and media be they books, archives, artworks, digital devices, or classroom teaching and the costs of anthropocentric mindsets and practices for the health of the planet. Many subfields in the Environmental Humanities ecocriticism, environmental philosopyand history, critical animal studies, differ ent ecologies, ecofeminisms, environmental sociology, political e cology, Eco materialisms, and post humanism, among others hold the opinion that the wounds of the natural world are also social wounds and that the planetary ecological calamity is the material and historic al consequence of an anthropocentric and dualistic worldview. The legacy of this dissociation explains why the planetary environ ment today is seen as ‘A swirling biogeochemical playground whose elements combine to form designs, cycles, and circulations of landscapes, species, and ecologies’ resulting in the relentless dist urbance of the Earth’s rhythms, bio cycles, species connections and ecosytemic procedure.

One of the intimidating consequences of the dissociative thinking that we are currently feeling is global climate change, which affects the Earth’s living fabric with melting glaciers, ocean acidification, extreme temperature, droughts, floods, increased tornado and hurricane activity and intensity. Other distressing events linked to climate change such as water resource depletion, extinction of valuable species, climate related diseases and mutating viruses have also emerged from the ‘anthropocentric credo’ in its long historical path.

According to this vision, social as well as ecological relationships are framed within ‘The logic of othering’ that subjugates not only humans and sentient animals but also everything else that is exploitable. This radicalized ‘hyper separation’, however, creates in the authorative subjects the illusion of their ‘Disembedness’, thus obstruct their own survival. It is, therefore, crucial to look for new methods of thought that would shift our mindset towards a disanthropocentric digressive change, which in turn will create and implement more sustainable economic practices, social behaviors and moral standards.

Human action is visible everywhere in the construction of knowledge as well as in the production of the magnificent those sciences are called to register’. And something that our science cannot help registering is that, radically and profoundly, we are trans corporeal subjects, undeniably involved in the Earth’s biophysical processes along with other variety species.