PEI Faculty Seminar: “Environcide: War, Society, and Environment”

 

Emmanuel Kreike, Professor of History, presented, “Environcide: War, Society, and Environment,” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, in Guyot Hall, Room 10. Kreike was the second speaker in the Spring 2018 PEI Faculty Seminar Series.

Summary: The impact of war on society and the environment is conceptualized as war against humans or war against nature — genocide or ecocide. But war does not segregate nature and culture. Instead, it triggers “environcide” by destroying a society’s environmental infrastructure or displacing people from it, inviting disease, drought, famine, and social and environmental collapse.

PEI Faculty Seminar: “Environcide: War, Society, and Environment”

Publish Date

March 6, 2018

Presenter(s)

Emmanuel Kreike

Link to Video

https://youtu.be/wacGVVlSin4

Video Length

00:55:19

 

Emmanuel Kreike, Professor of History, presented, “Environcide: War, Society, and Environment,” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, in Guyot Hall, Room 10. Kreike was the second speaker in the Spring 2018 PEI Faculty Seminar Series.

Summary: The impact of war on society and the environment is conceptualized as war against humans or war against nature — genocide or ecocide. But war does not segregate nature and culture. Instead, it triggers “environcide” by destroying a society’s environmental infrastructure or displacing people from it, inviting disease, drought, famine, and social and environmental collapse.