What would a sustainable society look like? How could it be achieved? By challenging conventional wisdom about the ecological crisis and reframing the traditional values of green politics qReal Green; Sustainability after the End of Natureq offers new answers to the key questions of the environmental debate. In this ground-breaking and challenging work Manuel Arias-Maldonado convincingly argues that, since nature has now been transformed into a part of the human environment, it can be seen to no longer exist. Ecological problems thus become an inevitable and normal feature of our relationship with nature. Hence a post-natural environmentalism, realistic and liberal while remaining green, is advocated. In this framework, sustainability, democracy and liberalism become mutually reinforcing elements rather than conflicting ones. Only by combining them can a green society be realised.... of it over which we can exercise control, more nearly into conformity with a high standard of justice and goodness (Stuart Mill 1998: 65). ... Synthetic biology, the digitisation of natural systems through green information technology, genetic engineering, smart systems of ... sustainable society of the future would resemble a pastoral landscape of socionatural harmony, achieved through a De-escalation anbsp;...
Title | : | Real Green |
Author | : | Dr Manuel Arias-Maldonado |
Publisher | : | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. - 2013-04-28 |
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