This course explores the critical ways to engage with the global environmental crisis through the lens of humanities and social sciences. It is not an introduction to a ready-made academic field, neither "environmental history" nor "ecocriticism." It focuses on the critical approaches to the planetary environmental crisis. The slowness and ineffectiveness of global responses to climate change and biodiversity loss reality prompts several questions: What lies at the core of global environmental politics? How urgent is the current planetary crisis, and what is its true nature? Is the academic discourse on environmental criticism adequately addressing the crisis? How do environmental issues intersect with human histories and everyday life? And how does environmental and interspecies justice relate to social and political justice?