{"product_id":"thinking-like-a-mall-environmental-philosophy-after-the-end-of-nature-9780262529716","title":"Thinking like a Mall Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnvironmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In \u003ci\u003eThinking like a Mall\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a \u003ci\u003ebuilt \u003c\/i\u003eworld, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVogel argues provoc\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195165798743,"sku":"9780262529716","price":29.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-like-a-mall-environmental-philosophy-after-the-end-of-nature-9780262529716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}