Humanities: The Last Key to the Puzzle

For years and years global powers have been trying to solve our overwhelming environmental problems with just science, policy , and economics. This however has turned out not to be the ultimate equation for environmental problem solving. They were missing a key component, the humanities. This was shown after the failure of the Rio Conference in 1992. This conference focused on furthering ecological modernization to move into an era of sustainability. Unfortunately this doesn't solve all our issues and after this was confirmed the search for the sustainable answer resumed.

All signs point to environmental humanities as our way to tackle these overarching issues. Environmental Studies as a discipline uses knowledge from all over the academic spectrum to solve problems. Without unification, these areas of studies are ignorant to other ways of looking at the issues and are blind to what may help. Humanities mainly have been out of this picture. Environmental studies in a lot of ways focuses on this overlooked discipline and fits it in as that last piece of the puzzle. As more humanity thinkers start to take the reign of environmental policy and science planning, all things point to a brighter future. 

Gomez, Sergio. "Why Should Biologists Interested in the Environment Take the Humanities Seriously?" Yale Environmental Humanities Initiative. N.p., 18 Aug. 2015. Web. 23 Apr. 2016.