Pre-modern attitudes and influences -- Early modern reflections -- Darwin and his successors -- The American debate -- Foundations of the science of ecology -- Further origins of conservation -- Early environmentalism -- Environmental philosophy and kindred studies -- Green issu…
"An ambitious and wide-ranging synthesis of the history of environmental thought by a leading philosopher"--
"An ambitious and wide-ranging synthesis of the history of environmental thought by a leading philosopher"--
"An ambitious and wide-ranging synthesis of the history of environmental thought by a leading philosopher"--
Prologue / by Lierre Keith -- The Spectrum of Environmentalism -- The problem -- Solving for the wrong variable -- The solar lie: Part 1 -- The solar lie: Part 2 -- The wind lie -- The lie of green energy storage -- Efficiency -- Recycling -- The green city lie -- The green grid…
""Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but i…
"The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the des…
""Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but i…
""Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but i…
"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in envir…
"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in envir…
Introduction: What was an environment? -- The world in the museum: natural history and the invention of organisms and environments in post-revolutionary Paris -- Environments of empire: disease, race, and statistics in the British Caribbean -- The urban milieu: evolutionary theo…
"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in envir…
"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in envir…
"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in envir…
Nation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day …
