Kronik udgivet i Kristeligt Dagblad d. 8. september 2022: Tidens små tiltag for at mindske klimaforandringerne er slet ikke nok. Vi må gøre noget radikalt og håndtere klimakrisen, som om vi skulle i krig I december 2018 gik omfanget af klimakrisen for alvor op for …
Read MorePandemien skal lære os at indtage en mere ydmyg plads i verden og naturen
Dette er en kronik, der blev bragt i Dagbladet Information d. 20. februar 2021. ** Pandemien, klimakrisen og biodiversitetskrisen er alle udtryk for det samme: At mennesket ikke tilpasser sig sine omgivelser, men tror, vi kan få naturen til at føje sig efter vores interesser. …
Read MoreJordboen – det 21. århundredes medborger
Jeg har skrevet et bidrag til det nyeste nummer af KVaN, der er et fagtidsskrift for læreruddannelse og skole. Det er et tema-nummer om Bæredygtighed, og jeg er kommet i fint selskab med bl.a. Steen Hildebrandt, Lone Belling, Johannes Andersen og række pædagogiske praktikere og …
Read MoreComics on evolution
Yet another installment in my on-going series on why evolution is awesome: I’ve recently come across Bird and Moon, the wonderful website of Rosemary Mosco. She does fun and poignant web comics, charts and diagrams depicting the weird and wonderful ways of animals, plants and …
Read MoreBelonging
“As the globalised, placeless world spreads, and as progress is increasingly defined as the ability to look out of a hotel window in any city and see the same corporate logos lit up in familiar neon, it could be that the most radical thing to …
Read MoreAppreciative reminders
This is part six of a six-part essay called Choosing restraint. You can read the whole essay here. *** So, where does that leaves us? I would like to end this essay with a few concrete suggestions. But since I doubt that most …
Read MoreTwo stories of appreciation
This is part five of a six-part essay called Choosing restraint. You can read the whole essay here. *** How can we find this love? How can we come to feel this kind of appreciation? I believe that all paths to such feelings …
Read MoreAn ethic of appreciation
This is part four of a six-part essay called Choosing restraint. You can read the whole essay here. *** How can we develop such communal restraints on a global scale? In the long run, such restraints may well become law. But it is …
Read MoreCommunal restraint
This is part three of a six-part essay called Choosing restraint. You can read the whole essay here. *** The farmer and author Wendell Berry relates the story of an Amish farmer who was asked, “what does community mean to you?” He said, “when my son and …
Read MoreOpting out
This is part two of a six-part essay called Choosing restraint. You can read the whole essay here. *** Some people do opt out. In 2011, Andrea Hejlskov, her husband Jeppe Juul and their four children moved from the busy life in Copenhagen …
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