The Progressive Environmental Prometheans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Progressive Environmental Prometheans write by William B. Meyer. This book was released on 2016-06-30. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left. Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this “progressive Prometheanism” and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today. The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader’s understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies.
Neo-Environmental Determinism
Neo-Environmental Determinism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neo-Environmental Determinism write by William B. Meyer. This book was released on 2017-05-31. Neo-Environmental Determinism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book pulls together major critiques of contemporary attempts to explain nature-society relations in an environmentally deterministic way. After defining key terms, it reviews the history of environmental determinism’s rise and fall within geography in the early twentieth century. It discusses the key reasons for the doctrine’s rejection and presents alternative, non-deterministic frameworks developed within geography for analyzing the roles played by the environment in human affairs. The authors examine the rise in recent decades of neo-deterministic approaches to such issues as the demarcation of regions, the causes of civilizational collapse in prehistory, today’s globally uneven patterns of human well-being, and the consequences of human-induced climate change. In each case, the authors draw on the insights and approaches of geography, the academic discipline most conversant with the interactions of society and environment, to challenge the widespread acceptance that such approaches have won. The book will appeal to those working on human-environmental research, international development and global policy initiatives.
Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis
Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis write by Jonathan Symons. This book was released on 2019-07-09. Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future. However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature. In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision. Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism. Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.
The Nature of Tomorrow
The Nature of Tomorrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Tomorrow write by Michael Rawson. This book was released on 2021-11-16. The Nature of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of how Western visions of endless future growth have contributed to the global environmental crisis For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of these narratives: the single-minded expectation of unlimited growth on a finite planet. Rawson shows how these stories, which have long pervaded Western dreams about the future, have helped to enable an unprecedentedly abundant and technology-driven lifestyle for some while bringing the threat of environmental disaster to all. Adapting to ecological realities, he argues, hinges on the ability to create new visions of tomorrow that decouple growth from the idea of progress.
Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics
Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics write by Robert C. Paehlke. This book was released on 1989. Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the historic evolution of environmental ideology, analyzes the potential of an environmentally informed progressivism in society today
