Nature's Debt to Society
Andrew Ross
- Author(s)
- Andrew Ross
- Publication, year
- London ; New York : Verso, 1995
- Scope
- 308 Pages, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 0860916545
Andrew Ross's The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life questions the evangelical asceticism of much environmentalist thought, and calls for a renewal of the libertarian, post-scarcity tradition. These are strange and scary days for an ecology movement that was conceived in fierce opposition to power. Fractured, as ever, by divisions and competing agendas, the movement must now confront the dangerous tendency of those in power to invoke nature's laws as a model for social well-being. Partly as a result of ecology's influence, biologism is back, and the spectres of social Darwinism and Malthusian ideas about natural scarcity have begun to reinforce, if not translate in, calls for a reduction in right and freedoms in our civil society.
- Location
- Cabinet 18 - 4: Ecologisch bouwen
- Remarks
- Incl. notes and Index.
