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| Name | Subhankar Banerjee keynote "Have you seen a species go extinct?" for "Re-MEDIAting the Wild" Conf. |
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| Video Discription | On 21 June 2021, Subhankar Banerjee gave a keynote lecture “Have you seen a species go extinct?” at the 16th Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) "Re-MEDIAting the Wild" hosted by the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA). Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the conference took place over an online platform, with participants attending virtually from different parts of the world. Conference website: https://theieca.org/conference/coce-2021-online While there is now meaningful progress with addressing the climate crisis in which communication has played a significant role, the biodiversity crisis continues to fester from public inattention and alludes the radar of policy makers. Is the biodiversity crisis less significant than the climate crisis? Far from it. The intensifying biodiversity crisis is just as consequential, just as severe in scale and scope, and just as challenging to mitigate as the climate crisis, if not more. Take for example, the no-end-in-sight coronavirus pandemic that has been causing so much death and suffering around the world. The root causes of the pandemic, scientists inform us, are situated in the biodiversity crisis, specifically the destruction of wildlife habitats and trade of wildlife. In a May 2019 assessment, the United Nations projected that one million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity. And according to the 2020 Living Planet Report, monitored populations of vertebrate species (amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals, and reptiles) declined in abundance by an average of 68% globally, with the most pronounced loss of 94% in Central and South America, and 84% for freshwater species globally. All to say that our nonhuman relatives face a grim future. The question before us this: How can we, environmental communicators and scholars of environmental communication help speed up the process so that the biodiversity crisis will finally get the attention from the public and the policy makers that it deserves? Drawing on more than two decades of engagement with and witnessing the biodiversity and the climate crises in multiple geographies, in this talk, I’ll reflect on that question and offer some analysis and suggestions to open up a long overdue and crucially needed conversation. I have personally witnessed and addressed in my writing and/or photography four mass species die-offs in North America, but I have never seen a species go extinct. Subhankar Banerjee is the Lannan Foundation Endowed Chair and a professor of Art & Ecology at the University of New Mexico where he serves as the founding director of both the Species in Peril project at UNM (https://speciesinperil.unm.edu/) and the UNM Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities (https://art.unm.edu/center-for-environmental-arts-and-humanities/). |
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