Homo Sapiens? Understanding Humanity’s Inertia in the Face of Climate Science
The question whether Homo sapiens is truly sapiens (wise) has been the subject of lively debate in recent years in light of humanity’s inadequate response to a number of global catastrophic risks, among them climate change. While countless types of explanation could be proposed for humanity’s inadeq...
| Published in: | Theology and science |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2021
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Theology and science
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| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Christian Theology
B Climate Change B Human Nature B Edward O. Wilson B Evolutionary Biology B Reinhold Niebuhr |
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| Summary: | The question whether Homo sapiens is truly sapiens (wise) has been the subject of lively debate in recent years in light of humanity’s inadequate response to a number of global catastrophic risks, among them climate change. While countless types of explanation could be proposed for humanity’s inadequate response to climate change, this article limits itself to two which locate the problem in universal human nature. The first is drawn chiefly from the evolutionary biology of Edward O. Wilson, the second from the Christian theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. These two explanations are best viewed as mutually complementary. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2021.1944502 |