Tema Milstein

Abstract We draw upon our own experience as educators who teach into the transdisciplinary sustainability field of environment and society to start to argue that, paradoxically, to prepare our students for a future in which AI will increasingly disrupt traditional professions, sources of information, and approaches to knowledge, it is incumbent upon educators such as us to ensure learners have the opportunity to develop certain core, critical human abilities.

Each of us is made up of a mix of identities - political, sexual, class, gender and so on. But how often do we stop to think of our ecocultural identity? Far from being another "self" to throw into the mix, ecocultural identity is integral to everything we do and everything we are. This week we hear from the co-editors of a new book whose message is that in order to arrest the slide into ecological calamity, we urgently need to de-throne our species and embrace a new humility.