Visionaries like Elon Musk have spoken of the Internet and the planetary reach of the media as a "global thinking circuit".
We will trace the patterns, and possible solutions, that emerge when we apply environmental humanities methods to complex ecological issues like sustainability, environmental justice, climate change, waste, energy, global health, and water, and begin thinking ecologically about vital planetary interconnections.
You have two choices one, accept it and realize that a lack of choice frees up thinking time and spares planetary resources, or two, travel back to your home country and buy up (or have understanding family and friends send you care packages).
Dr. Forrest of the Rochester group suggested as a third possibility that the star was surrounded by a faint nebula of dust and gas that had misled astronomers into thinking they had seen a planetary body.
As someone who spends most of his waking hours thinking about how we solve this planetary emergency, I was deeply inspirited by the pontiff's urgent call for a "bold cultural revolution".
With his tussled hair and rapid movements, he gave off a mad scientist vibe, and as he swung his arms and pointed at various musicians, I couldn't help thinking that he was directing a planetary invasion by robots.
"We have to start thinking about these things as more than planetary objects," Anthony Del Genio, a climate modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies told Nature.
Coupled to the last point, the contemporary language associated with the study of hazards, disasters, and disaster risk reduction is unhelpful, in my view, for thinking about and acknowledging that deeper history of planetary disasters.
Thinking with the sylvan logics that thinking forests amplify can provide an ethical orientation –a mode of thought– that is adequate for these times of planetary human-driven ecological devastation that some call the "Anthropocene". I here discuss three projects in and around the tropical forests of Ecuador whose goal is to capacitate sylvan thought.
