Rising tides
Subtitle: a history of the environmental revolution and visions for an ecological age
By: Rory Spowers.
Publisher: Canongate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Environmentalism -- History.; Economic development -- Environmental aspects.; Ecology -- Philosophy.
Description: Examination of the many factors that have shaped ecological thought over the ages and in challenging the basic assumptions of the Western worldview, exposes the fundamental flaws in a system that believes in unlimited economic growth within a finite world and has confused financial worth with the real wealth of the natural systems upon which we are all dependent. [book jacket].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-308) and index.