Contesting Earth's Future
Subtitle: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780520209077
Subjects: Demonstrations & protest movements; Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations; Human ecology; Pressure groups & lobbying; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Nature; Environmental Sociology; Feminism; Environmental Studies; Social Science; Nature/Ecology; Sociology - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Philosophy / General
First sentence: Though sometimes sounding like contemporary Jeremiahs, proclaiming to a wayward humankind the spiritually devastating and potentially suicidal consequences of practices that are destabilizing the ecosphere and threatening millions of species (possibly including humankind) with extinction, deep ecologists offer a positive message: humankind can become more integrated and mature, thus outgrowing the fearful posture that leads to such aggressive treatment of nature.