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Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power and Public Life

Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power and Public Life

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Series: Global Environmental Governance

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

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ISBN10: 075467102X
ISBN13: 9780754671022
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2009
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how environmental skepticism has been organized by mostly US-based conservative think tanks as an anti-environmental counter-movement. This is the first book to analyze the importance of the US conservative counter-movement in world politics and its meaning for democratic and accountable deliberation, as well as its importance as a mal-adaptive project that hinders the world's people to rise to the challenges of sustainability. Specific consideration is given to the threat of the counter-movement to marginalized people of the world and its philosophical implications through its commitment to a 'deep anthropocentrism'.

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