Ecology

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Carolyn Merchant
Humanity Books, 1999 - Political Science - 383 pages
This text argues that as we survey the effects of modernism -environmental destructions, the net consumption of irreplaceable natural resources and the ever-widening gulf between first and third worlds - we are forced to grapple with the consequences of the domination of nature by human beings.

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Introduction
1
Marx and Engels on Ecology
21
Howard Parsons ed 888
28
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Carolyn Merchant is professor of Environmental history, philosophy, and ethics in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution; Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England; and Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. She is also the editor of Major Problems in American Environmental History.