Talk & Book Signing for Nature and Joy: A New Defense of the Natural World by Michael McCarthy

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall See map
195 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 
A talk by renowned UK environmental journalist Michael McCarthy on NATURE AND JOY: A NEW DEFENSE OF THE NATURAL WORLD
 
  • Welcome by Indy Burke, Dean of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
  • Introductory remarks by Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
  • A special appearance by Grammy winning musician Paul Winter
 
A talk by renowned UK environmental journalist Michael McCarthy on NATURE AND JOY: A NEW DEFENSE OF THE NATURAL WORLD: The natural world has never been more threatened, from the chainsawing of the rainforests to the gross pollution of the oceans, but our main defenses of nature may not be adequate to protect it in the 21st century, argues Michael McCarthy in his new book, The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy. Instead, he says, we should start to bring to nature’s defense the very love we have for it and that our bond with nature, the bond discovered recently by evolutionary biology, that bond of fifty thousand generations, is at the heart of what it means to be human. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.