In response to the question of what ecocriticism is or should be, Camilo Gomides has offered an operational definition that is both broad and discriminating: \analyzes and promotes works of art which raise moral questions about human interactions with nature, while also motivating audiences to live within a limit that will be binding over generations\about Amazonian deforestation. Implementing the Gomides definition, Joseph Henry Vogel makes the case that
ecocriticism constitutes an \engages audiences to debate issues of resource allocation that have no technical solution.
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