Thirteen: Society and Nature

The goal of sociology is understanding, seeing how people make sense of big and complex hazards like climate change; how people respond differently to hazards based on their worldviews, (and how the ways people see this hazard can help make sense of others). These positions with regard to the relationship between human beings and the natural world are profoundly different. All are worth taking seriously in attempting to understand environmental sociology, more broadly, and in understanding how human beings relate to the rest of the biosphere.