Culture of Unsustainability

Voimassaoloaika: 01.09.2019- 31.08.2023

Projektin status: Päättynyt

Rahoittajat: Suomen Akatemia

Projektin kokonaisrahoitus: 650 000€ - 700 000€

Monitieteiset teemat: Luonnon monimuotoisuus ja kestävyys

Tiivistelmä: This project examinea the history of exploiting animals for human food and clothes in Finland from the perspective of unsustainability. The use of animals has increasingly been seen by environmental scientists as an obstacle to attaining sustainability goals. Since the late nineteenth century, the animal production, whether in form of milk, meat, fur or leather, have consumed vast quantities of arable land, exacerbated the climate change and polluted watercourses, while commercial fishing has emptied the sea from the fish. These calamitous environmental changes have been caused by human actions and thus requires historical and cultural analysis.