Mark Y. A. Davies

Mark Y.A. Davies is the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics and director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility at Oklahoma City University. Click for more of his essays. OneWorldHouse.net

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Where We Belong

Mark Y. A. Davies - July 19, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES Before Nazis started killing Jewish persons, they used to say things like “Juden Raus” and “Auf nach Palästina!” The translations are...

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Racists In Office

Mark Y. A. Davies - July 17, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES President Trump’s racist comments about four American persons of color in the U.S. House of Representatives in which he declared they...

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My Hometown

Mark Y. A. Davies - July 7, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES My hometown is Lawton, OK. My family moved to Lawton when I was four, and that was my home until I...

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Listening To Our Climate Scientists

Mark Y. A. Davies - May 31, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES If a person ate fast food and drank sugary drinks every day and 99 out of 100 cardiologists told this person...

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Writing The Turning Point In Our Climate Crisis Story

Mark Y. A. Davies - May 15, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES The peripeteia, or turning point, of a story is sometimes difficult to ascertain the first time one is reading it. It...

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Climate Eucatastrophe

Mark Y. A. Davies - May 9, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES In J. R. R. Tolkien’s works, the eucatastrophic moment only comes when good and compassionate persons realize that they must be...

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Who Will Save Us?

Mark Y. A. Davies - April 29, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES Corporations are not going to save us. Politicians are not going to save us. Judges are not going to save us....

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Fossil Fueled Fascism

Mark Y. A. Davies - March 25, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES There are at least four things about which our current president is quite consistent: He is anti-immigrant and anti-refugee in relation...

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Hope And Climate Change

Mark Y. A. Davies - February 20, 2019 0

BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES What most climate scientists and climate justice advocates don’t want to publicly admit is that the die is likely already cast...

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