Ohio State Lectures

1. Climate & Agricultural Ethics: Winds & Seeds of Change Ohio State Lectures Calvin B. DeWitt & David Kline

2. Climate Ethics: Winds of Change Ohio State Lectures Calvin B. DeWitt Professor Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison

6. 3/26/2009 Calvin B. DeWitt - The FITCHBURG-WAUBESA ARTESIAN SYSTEM 6

7. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

13. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

14. Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted. ---Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board, 2005

15. Human activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted. ...protection of these assets can no longer be seen as an optional extra, to be considered once more pressing concerns such as wealth creation or national security have been dealt with. ---Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board, 2005

16. Key to sustaining Healthy Ecosystems is Returning Ecosystem Services with Services of Our Own “Con – Service” Calvin B. DeWitt - The FITCHBURG-WAUBESA ARTESIAN SYSTEM

17. …and for continuing conversation at Plants & Soils ‘08 DIAGNOSIS

19. Praxis in the 21st CenturyThe Situation: Placement (conceptually) of the Human Economy outside of the Economy of Creation Globalization of the Human Economy Disruption of the Economy of Creation Globalization of the Degradation of Creation Disciplinary and Practical Fragmentation Secularization (Separation of Science from Values)

20. The Science-Ethics-Praxis Triad Science Ethics Praxis

21. The Science-Ethics-Praxis Triad Science How does the world work? Ethics What ought to be? Praxis Then what must we do?

22. William Blake:

23. An Urgent Call to Action • Each particular problem could be enumerated, but here it is enough to say that we are gradually destroying the sustaining community of life on which all living things on Earth depend. • We agree that our home, the Earth, which comes to us as that inexpressibly beautiful and mysterious gift that sustains our very lives, is seriously imperiled by human behavior... • The costs of this destruction are already manifesting themselves around the world in profound and painful ways. The cost to humanity is already significant and may soon become incalculable. Being irreversible, many of these changes would affect all generations to come.

24. An Urgent Call to Action • We believe that the protection of life on Earth is a profound moral imperative. • It addresses without discrimination the interests of all humanity as well as the value of the non-human world. • It requires a new moral awakening to a compelling demand, clearly articulated in Scripture and supported by science, that we must steward the natural world in order to preserve for ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment. • For many of us, this is a religious obligation, rooted in our sense of gratitude for Creation and reverence for its Creator.

25. An Urgent Call to Action • We declare that every sector of our nation’s leadership—religious, scientific, business, political, and educational—must act now to work toward the fundamental change in values, lifestyles, and public policies required to address these worsening problems before it is too late. • There is no excuse for further delays. • Business as usual cannot continue yet one more day. • We pledge to work together at every level to lead our nation toward a responsible care for creation, and we call with one voice to our scientific and evangelical colleagues, and to all others, to join us in these efforts.

26. Setting the Conditions for Societal & Biospheric Health

27. Praxis in the 21st CenturyThe Need for: • Placement of the Human Economy inside of Creation’s Economy • From “Fossil Fuels” to “Fossil Carbon” • Re-Ligation of Science,Ethics, & Praxis • Need for Recovery from Secularization • Recovery from Disciplinary Fragmentation • Need for Integrative Texbooks, Courses & Curricula • Recovery from Practical Fragmentation • Personal, Institutional & Business Biospheric Worldview • Recovery of Integrity of Creation and “Creation” • The Overarching Goal of Con-Service, everywhere

28. The Science-Ethics-Praxis Triad Science How does the world work? Ethics What ought to be? Praxis Then what must we do?

31. An Overarching Ethical Principle • Con-Service We must return creation’s service to us with service of our own. ‘avad

32. Con-Service =Stewardship Stewardship is: Living in harmony with the Biosphere Giving back to the Biosphere for what it gives to you

33. Worldview is a comprehensive & cohesive understanding of the world as an entire system of things natural and moral that gives shape and direction to human place and action in the world —adapted from Schelling, Orr, Goheen and Bartholomew

34. Biosphere & Creation