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I am a doctoral student in philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  My studies focus on the philosophical and religious implications of ecology and the global environmental crisis.  In particular, I am concerned with the emergence of a planetary environmental ethic that would orchestrate harmonious relations between the diversity of culture-specific environmental ethics, including the environmental ethics of the world's religions (e.g, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and indigenous traditions).  More generally, I am interested in overcoming the dissociation of the human from the non-human (or "more-than-human") world, a dissociation that is evident in the dichotomy between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric (e.g., biocentric or ecocentric) perspectives and in the dichotomy between socio-economic justice and environmental justice.  Nothing less than total revolution can overcome this pervasive dissociation of the human from the cosmos.