This discussion challenged the way I think about nature. It explained that the idea of nature is much more complicated than that. Instead of seeing nature and humans as completely separate, the lecture introduced […]

The lecture explained that climate change can also play an important role by making places difficult or impossible to live in because of drought, flooding, rising sea levels, and other environmental problems. I […]

This lecture introduced the idea of slow violence, which was a new concept for me. Before watching the lecture, I usually thought of violence as something that happens suddenly, like a war, a shooting, or a […]

One idea that stayed with me is the question of who is actually responsible for the environmental changes we see today. The term “Anthropocene” suggests that humanity as a whole has become a force capable of […]