Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction

IF 1.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Environmental Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.1215/22011919-9320156
Jeremy J. Schmidt
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In 2019 several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct? Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim. The first revisits Georges Cuvier’s original argument for extinction and its reliance on geology, especially glaciers. Retracing connections to glaciers and the narrowing of extinction to biological species in the nineteenth century, the author argues that anthropogenic forcing on how the Earth system functions—the Anthropocene—warrants rethinking extinction geologically. The second argument examines the specificity of ice loss and multiple practices responding to this loss: from art exhibits at United Nations climate change meetings to anticolonial claims for the right to be cold. The third argument consolidates a theme built across the article regarding how Isabelle Stengers’s notion of ecologies of practices provides an approach to geologic extinction that recognizes both relational and nonrelational loss.
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冰川死亡、地质灭绝
2019年,为冰川举行了几场葬礼。如果有足够多的冰川死亡,它们会灭绝吗?是否存在地质灭绝?是的。本文提出了三个论点来支持这一说法。第一篇文章回顾了乔治·居维叶(Georges Cuvier)最初关于物种灭绝的论点,以及它对地质学(尤其是冰川)的依赖。作者追溯了19世纪与冰川的联系,并将灭绝范围缩小到生物物种,他认为,人类对地球系统如何运作的强迫——人类世——值得从地质学上重新思考灭绝。第二个论点考察了冰损失的特殊性和应对这种损失的多种做法:从联合国气候变化会议上的艺术展览到反殖民主义对寒冷权利的主张。第三个论点巩固了贯穿全文的主题,即伊莎贝尔·斯坦厄斯的实践生态学概念如何为地质灭绝提供了一种认识到关系和非关系损失的方法。
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Environmental Humanities
Environmental Humanities HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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2.60
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32
审稿时长
20 weeks
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