{"title":"Life is not useful","authors":"C. Ibelli-Bianco","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2222606","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"generations, and we have to adapt to this, a part of nature and the cycle of life and not pretend to be above it. ‘The feeling for Nature is one of the deepest parts of human nature. It is actually rather straightforward. Our five senses are created to give us access to the infinite world of Nature. It is up to us to develop them to the greatest possible receptivity, thus our own sensitivity for life is expanded, and we get a deeper and fuller sense of being alive. And the present moment of life becomes even richer for us if we can connect it to earlier generations’ [2]. Recently, Kristoffer Garne also wrote about the Danish national icon, the poet and writer N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872) with regard to his views on nature and the environment [4]. In Grundtvig’s work as well as in that of other explicitly Christian Danish authors, he finds elements of Larsen’s thoughts on nature and man’s place in the universe, such as in Grundtvig’s use of metaphors from nature and reference to ‘the natural order of things’ which humans must obey. In the Christian context human beings are mostly considered as above or outside nature, but Garne still find important aspects in favour of environmental ethics in the Danish literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century which could inspire us today, but most consistently so in the works of Thøger Larsen.","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2222606","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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generations, and we have to adapt to this, a part of nature and the cycle of life and not pretend to be above it. ‘The feeling for Nature is one of the deepest parts of human nature. It is actually rather straightforward. Our five senses are created to give us access to the infinite world of Nature. It is up to us to develop them to the greatest possible receptivity, thus our own sensitivity for life is expanded, and we get a deeper and fuller sense of being alive. And the present moment of life becomes even richer for us if we can connect it to earlier generations’ [2]. Recently, Kristoffer Garne also wrote about the Danish national icon, the poet and writer N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872) with regard to his views on nature and the environment [4]. In Grundtvig’s work as well as in that of other explicitly Christian Danish authors, he finds elements of Larsen’s thoughts on nature and man’s place in the universe, such as in Grundtvig’s use of metaphors from nature and reference to ‘the natural order of things’ which humans must obey. In the Christian context human beings are mostly considered as above or outside nature, but Garne still find important aspects in favour of environmental ethics in the Danish literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century which could inspire us today, but most consistently so in the works of Thøger Larsen.
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For more than 45 years, the International Journal of Environmental Studies has been pre-eminent in its field. The environment is understood to comprise the natural and the man-made, and their interactions; including such matters as pollution, health effects, analytical methods, political approaches, social impacts etc. Papers favouring an interdisciplinary approach are preferred, because the evidence of more than 45 years appears to be that many intellectual tools and many causes and effects are at issue in any environmental problem - and its solution. This does not mean that a single focus or a narrow view is unwelcome; provided always that the evidence is indicated and the method is robust. Pragmatic decision-making and applicable policies are subjects of interest, together with the problems in establishing facts about dynamic systems where long periods of observation and precise measurement may be difficult to secure. In other words, a systems or holistic approach to the environment and a scientific analysis are complementary, and the distinction between ’hard’ and ’soft’ science is bridged in most of the papers published. These may be on any item in the agenda of environmental science: land, water, food, conservation, population, risk analysis, energy, economics of ecological and non-ecological approaches, social advocacy of arguments for change, legal measures, implications of urbanism, energy choices, waste disposal, recycling, transport systems and other issues of mass society. There is concern also for marginal areas, under-developed societies, minorities, species loss; and indeed no element of the subject of environmental studies, seen in an international and interactive mode, is excluded.