Eco injustices highlight the wicked problems of our times The Love Theorist

This is a reading of chapter 3 called ‘Eco injustice’ from my book, Broken-heartedness: Towards love in professional practice. It is the first part of a big chapter which relates how my personal and professional experiences intersected with a growing awareness of harm and injustice against Nature. In so doing I show an aspect of what is called a wicked problem where Australia’s economy is dependent on large scale mining of natural resources - ie Nature - and many peoples’ livelihoods, including my own family, and many communities’ viability are also dependent on big miners. The costs are borne by the environment but not only. The intersectionality of harm to people adjacent to mining operations, biodiversity loss and hence threats to some endangered species is apparently a cost that is traded for claimed benefits from this unsustainable economics. I show how very personal this matter of eco injustice is for me and how it is also very political. The trade offs need not be so highly stacked against the environment - Nature - with whom we are all intricately interconnected.
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