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Response: Utopian Versus Prophetic Visions

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The essays collected in this volume embrace an impossibly large set of vital questions, and each essay presents very different arguments. This short reflection observes some of the intersections between the various contributions and reflects on questions of academic strategy.

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  1. 1.

    On evangelical apocalyptic thought, see especially: Wylie Carr et al., ‘The Faithful Skeptics: Evangelical Religious Beliefs and Perceptions of Climate Change’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 6, 2012, 276–299; Matthew H. Goldberg et al., ‘Social Identity Approach to Engaging Christians in the Issue of Climate Change’, Science Communication 41, 2019, 442–463.

  2. 2.

    Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019).

  3. 3.

    See, e.g., Viktoria Spaiser, Shyam Ranganathan, Ranjula Bali Swain, and David J. T. Sumpter, ‘The Sustainable Development Oxymoron: Quantifying and Modelling the Incompatibility of Sustainable Development Goals’, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 24, No. 6, 2017, 457–470.

  4. 4.

    Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgios Kallis, Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (London: Routledge, 2014).

  5. 5.

    Timothy Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (London: Routledge, 2011).

  6. 6.

    Naomi Klein, ‘A Radical Vatican’, The New Yorker, 10 July 2015.

  7. 7.

    Ross Garnaut, Super-Power: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity (Carlton: Back Inc./La Trobe University Press, 2019), 23–24, 48–49, 166, 173.

  8. 8.

    Elvey refers in particular to Christos N. Kyrou, ‘Peace Ecology: An Emerging Paradigm in Peace Studies’, International Journal of Peace Studies 12, 2007, 73–92, but see also Johan Galtung, ‘Cultural Violence’, Journal of Peace Research 27, 1990, 291–305.

  9. 9.

    In the Australian context, see especially Anne Pattel-Gray, The Great White Flood: Racism in Australia (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998); Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).

  10. 10.

    Erin K. Wilson, ‘“Power Differences” and “the Power of Difference”: The Dominance of Secularism as Ontological Injustice’, Globalizations 14, 2017, 1076–1093.

  11. 11.

    See the work of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change and the resources gathered on their website: www.arrcc.org.au.

  12. 12.

    ‘A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’, Abu Dhabi, 4 February 2019, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2019/outside/documents/papa-francesco_20190204_documento-fratellanza-umana.html.

  13. 13.

    Pope Francis, ‘Conference on Religions and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Listening to the Cry of the Earth and of the Poor’, Vatican City, 8 March 2019, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2019/march/documents/papa-francesco_20190308_religioni-svilupposostenibile.html.

  14. 14.

    Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, 24 May 2015, par. 1, citing ‘Canticle of the Creatures’, in Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, Vol. 1, ed. Regis J. Armstrong, J. A. Wayne Hellman, and William J. Short (New York: New City Press, 1999), 113–114.

  15. 15.

    The wording of the quotation comes mainly from African lawyer, Nicolas Bayona-ba-Meya, in the Western Sahara case (1975). Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, ICJ Reports 1975, 85–86.

  16. 16.

    See, further, Mark G. Brett, Political Trauma and Healing: Biblical Ethics for a Postcolonial World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016), 145–162, 179–193; Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2019).

  17. 17.

    Regarding future generations, see the exceptional work of John Quiggin, ‘Equity between Overlapping Generations’, Journal of Public Economic Theory 14, 2012, 273–283; idem., Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 196–213.

  18. 18.

    See the interview with Aboriginal silk Tony McAvoy, himself a Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owner, at https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-bias-in-the-native-title-system-an-interview-with-barrister-tony-mcavoy-sc/. The legislation is available at https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017A00053.

  19. 19.

    See above, fn 7.

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Brett, M.G. (2020). Response: Utopian Versus Prophetic Visions. In: Camilleri, J., Guess, D. (eds) Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5021-8_15

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