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How to think seriously about the planet : the case for an environmental conservatism / Roger Scruton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scruton, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental ethics.
- Conservation of natural resources--Philosophy.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 457 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Green philosophy: how to think seriously about the planet
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Summary:
- Roger Scruton here makes a plea to rescue environmental politics from the activist movements and to return them to the people. The book defends the legacy of home-building and practical reasoning with which ordinary human beings solve their environmental problems, and attacks the alarmism and hysteria that are being used to uproot these resources, while putting nothing coherent in their place.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Local warming
- Global alarming
- The search for salvation
- Radical precaution
- Market solutions and homeostasis
- The moral economy
- Heimat and habitat
- Beauty, piety, and desecration
- Getting nowhere
- Begetting somewhere
- Modest proposals.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Green philosophy.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-59574-4
- 9780199895588 (electronic book)
- 9786613625571
- 0-19-989558-9
- OCLC:
- 793996686
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