Eileen Crist

Eileen Crist

Eileen Crist is Emerita Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech, where she taught for twenty-two years. Her work focuses on the extinction crisis and destruction of wild places, pathways to halt these trends, and inquiries surrounding humanity’s relationship with the planet. She is the author of Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization and co-editor of a number of books, including Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis and Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth. She is Associate Editor of the online journal The Ecological Citizen and regular contributor to the blog Earth Tongues. She holds a PhD in sociology from Boston University.

GTI Contributions
Solidarity with Animals
GTI Forum
Solidarity with Animals
Opening essay for a GTI Forum
February 2023

Response to Comments
GTI Forum
Response to Comments
Contribution to GTI Forum Solidarity with Animals
February 2023

Less Is More
GTI Forum
Less Is More
Contribution to GTI Forum The Population Debate Revisited
August 2022

In Defense of Protection
GTI Forum
In Defense of Protection
Contribution to GTI Forum Conservation at the Crossroads
May 2022