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Book SynopsisThe world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world.
Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of ecotopiaa conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship.
In this controversial and brilliantly writte
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Table of Contents
Preface 1 People in Nature 2 Learning from Others 3 Rationality, Emotion, and Economics 4 Political Ecology 5 Environmental Justice 6 "All Politics Is Local," and All Is Now Global 7 Going Past the Land Ethic 8 New Moral Codes Notes References Index About the Author
