Talk: Childhood and Environmental Experience: Growing Up in the Anthropocene

[Jessica Kleiss]

Hi ENVS, I thought this week's Friday afternoon Philosophy colloquium might ingerest some of you. I will reply with the room in JR Howard when I learn it. See below.

Lewis & Clark College Philosophy Colloquium

3:30-5:00 PM Friday, September 19

John R. Howard Hall, Room TBA

Brian Elliott <elli...@pdx.edu> Portland State University

Childhood and Environmental Experience: Growing Up in the Anthropocene

As the climate crisis has sharpened over recent decades, impending environmental collapse has become a preoccupation for many young people. But the psychology of fear tends to lead to a sense of impotence and to result in debilitating anxiety. At the same time, there are increasing concerns that screen-based childhood is undermining children’s positive sense of social connection and thereby their ability to flourish. I explore some of the social research which supports the claim that positive experience of the natural environment in childhood is associated with enhanced well-being in adulthood. While such experience is not a panacea, it will arguably help future generations to live their lives on an increasingly precarious planet.

Please attend, and please encourage your colleagues, students, and friends to attend.

Please forward this to anyone who would be interested.

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Dr. J. M. Fritzman, Associate Professor

frit...@lclark.edu

Department of Philosophy

Lewis & Clark College

615 South Palatine Hill Road

Portland

Oregon 97219-8091

USA

https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/fritzman/

https://lclark.academia.edu/JMFritzman

https://zoom.us/j/3469350737

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[Jessica Kleiss]

The philosophy colloquium will be in Howard 242.