George B. Handley

GEORGE B. HANDLEY {[email protected]} is professor of humanities at Brigham Young University and has been researching, writing, and teaching about the intersections between religion, literature, and the environment since moving to Utah in 1998. As a comparatist of literatures of the Americas, he is the author of two books of literary criticism and most recently of Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010), a creative nonfiction blend of nature writing, theology, personal memoir, and local history. He and his wife, Amy Handley, have four children and live in Provo.

Faith and the Ethics of Climate Change

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2

The reach of environmental problems today urges us to consider more carefully how interdependent we are with one another and with the entirety of ecological processes across the globe. Environmental degradation has reached a scale that the otherwise forward-thinking conservationist Aldo Leopold had not yet imagined in 1949, making his call for a land ethic even more urgent to heed. However, we can only see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in those things that our experiences, culture, and values have taught us are real—or at least that help stimulate our minds to imagine.