Solving History
Subtitle: The Challenge of Environmental Activism
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781551641133
Subjects: Economics; Politics - Current Events; Ecological Politics; Environmental Economics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Public Policy - General; Environmental Science; General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
First sentence: The environmental fight has to be fought in the heart of modern economy, not in the extremities of the environmental movement.
Description: "Rogers argues that multi-stakeholder, round table conservation agendas (although they recognize the increasing complexity of environmental problems) have failed to deal with these problems because they do not challenge the economic interests that benefit from the increasingly global level playing field. Because there is an aggressive agenda which promotes overexploitation, any conservation initiative which hopes to be successful has to begin by resisting these forces.

Not only will it be necessary to "resolve issues", we may, in fact, have to "solve history" in order to deal with environmental problems." "Drawing upon his analysis of the failures of conservation set out in Nature and the Crisis of Modernity and Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability Rogers presents an activist's response to environmental concerns."--BOOK JACKET.