Webinar Recording: Earth Ethics Conversation with Karenna Gore

Listen back to our conversation with Karenna Gore, the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Earth Ethics and visiting professor of practice of Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

In this recording from November 2024, Karenna explores implications for how to live, as individuals and collectives, as we navigate the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis and where we go from here. Earth Ethics is an essential field of thought today because many of the activities that are harming ecosystems not only are legal, but often encouraged. This field is dynamic and diffuse, but humanity must engage with it seriously and more widely to correct course in our relationship to the ecological web of life upon which we all depend for survival. Earth Ethics reminds us that we are connected to the Earth and that our moral obligations extend across space, time and even species.

Karenna formed the Center for Earth Ethics in 2015 to address the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis. Working at the intersection of faith, ethics and ecology, she guides the Center’s public programs, educational initiatives and movement-building. She also is an ex officio faculty member of Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

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