Aside from the petty disposal of the vegan sliders, Mamá’s actions were recognizable to my local community in part because they represented an underappreciated ethic of environmental sustainability that author Amanda J. Baugh explores in depth in her book, Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism (NYU Press, 2024). The book itself is born out of Baugh’s personal experience of teaching courses on religion and environmentalism at California State University, Northridge for over a decade. It was through discussions with her students at this Hispanic-serving institution that Baugh came to realize that, as she puts it, “many of the ‘non-environmentalists’ sitting in my classroom embraced numerous measures often associated with ecologically sustainable living.”
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