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Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Hardback)
Short Description for Green PhilosophyRoger Scruton is one of Britain's most respected thinkers and in this new book he offers a radically different solution to the planet's most important problem.
Full description- Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Published: 01 January 2012
- Format: Hardback 464 pages
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- Categories: Environmentalist Thought & Ideology | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9781848870765 ISBN 10: 1848870760
- Sales rank: 23,115
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Full description for Green Philosophy
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy, Roger Scruton shows the fallacies behind that way of thinking, and the danger that it poses to the ecosystems on which we all depend. Scruton contends that the environment is the most urgent political problem of our age, and sets out the principles that should govern our efforts to protect it. The current environmental movement directs its energies at the bigger picture but fails to see that environmental problems are generated and resolved by ordinary people. In Green Philosophy, Scruton argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. He shows that rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local sovereignty. People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as a home, and to affirm themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics. Our common future is by no means assured, but as Roger Scruton clearly demonstrates in this important book, there is a path that we can take which could ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.
