Mary Evelyn Tucker: "Religion, Ecology, and the Future"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Nate Hagens

Natural Sciences, Science, Earth Sciences

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker unpacks the entanglement of religion and ecology from an academic perspective. She and Nate discuss what the roots of environmental ethics in religions all over the world look like and how they've been evolving in the face of a climate and biodiversity crisis. Could we learn and leverage the uniting power of religion to help us organize and mobilize against impending global crises?

About Mary Evelyn Tucker:

Mary Evelyn is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and the Environment as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies, with a specialty in Asian religions. She teaches in the joint MA program in Religion and Ecology and directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University. Her concern for the growing environmental crisis, especially in Asia, led her to co-organize a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, which were highly successful.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins.
0:06.0	That's me.
0:07.0	On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, the environment, and our society.
0:17.0	Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the
0:22.6	bird's eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do
0:28.3	about it as a society and as individuals.
0:32.9	On last week's podcast, Ayan Mahmoud, a Muslim, remarked how there is an environmental ethic
0:41.2	embedded in the Quran, which I didn't know.
0:45.1	This week, religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker unpacks this from an academic perspective.
0:52.0	What do the roots of environmental ethics and religions all over the world
0:56.0	look like? How could we learn from the uniting power of religion to help us organize and
1:03.1	mobilize against impending global crises? Mary Evelyn directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University and is also the co-creator of the film Journey of the Universe.
1:18.0	She is, as you're about to find out, infectious in her grace, warmth, and positivity.
1:24.9	I hope you enjoy this conversation with religion ecology scholar
1:30.3	Mary Evelyn Tucker.
1:32.3	Mary Evelyn Tucker, great to see you.
1:47.6	Wonderful to see you, Nate.
1:49.0	Looking good.
1:50.0	You as well.
1:51.0	We have interacted over the years just in anonymous, not anonymous, but blind emails.
1:58.4	And I never met you in person until this summer.
2:02.5	And now when I'm seeing your face,
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