2018/09/01 by SANDRA SHAPSHAY, Sandra Shapshay, LEVI TENEN +1 · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Environmental Science · #Aesthetics #Art #Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature #Environmental Philosophy and Ethics #Environmentalism #Law #Political science #Politics
paper · doi:10.1111/jaac.12602
published in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76(4), 391-397 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2018/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
In most circles today, it is taken to be an uncontroversial fact that human beings are having an impact on Earth's climate, and one that is exceedingly worrisome. Yet as the effects of anthropogenic climate change have become more and more pronounced, the political climate in the United States has become more and more hostile to environmental concerns. As we write, for instance, climate scientists and environmentalists are facing acute policy setbacks: The Trump Administration has withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, systematically defunded climate science, used the Antiquities Act to de‐designate the national monuments Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase‐Escalante, and has rolled back environmental regulations on industry, to name a few. This is the political backdrop, unfortunate as it is, against which we present “The Good, the Beautiful, the Green: Environmentalism and Aesthetics.” We hope that the articles found here will spur readers to think critically about a variety of issues at stake in policy decisions made today, and the impact they have on the future.