EcologyCarolyn Merchant 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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Page 81
... colonial peoples were finally able to begin the process of throwing off the chains of oppression . For many the victory was short lived . To replace traditional colonial rule , effected by arms and religion , came a new era of ...
... colonial peoples were finally able to begin the process of throwing off the chains of oppression . For many the victory was short lived . To replace traditional colonial rule , effected by arms and religion , came a new era of ...
Page 82
... colonial powers of imperial Europe were soon of secondary importance , however , to the new economic colossus of the United States . Although more rational and certainly more sophisticated , economic colonialism was as heavy a burden to ...
... colonial powers of imperial Europe were soon of secondary importance , however , to the new economic colossus of the United States . Although more rational and certainly more sophisticated , economic colonialism was as heavy a burden to ...
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... colonial processes of ecological degradation and the loss of political control over nature's suste- nance base . Economic growth was a new colonialism , draining resources away from those who needed them most . The discontinuity lay in ...
... colonial processes of ecological degradation and the loss of political control over nature's suste- nance base . Economic growth was a new colonialism , draining resources away from those who needed them most . The discontinuity lay in ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Marx and Engels on Ecology | 21 |
Howard Parsons ed 888 | 28 |
Copyright | |
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Adorno American animals anthropocentric Arne Naess basic become birthrate capitalism capitalist century concept concerns consciousness countries crisis critique cultural ecofeminism Deep Ecology destruction Dialectic domination of nature earth ecocentric ecofeminism ecofeminists ecologists Ecology Movement economic ecosystems Enlightenment environment Environmental Ethics Environmental justice essential essentialist example existence exploitation female feminism feminist Friedrich Engels Fritjof Capra Gaia global Goddess green Green Politics groups growth Horkheimer human individual industrial internal labor liberation living male Marcuse Marx Marxism material Max Horkheimer means modern Murray Bookchin nations object oppression organization paradigm patriarchal perspective philosophy physical planet political pollution population Press principle problems Process Theology production radical reason relation relationship religion revolution scientific social ecology social/ist ecofeminists socialist society species Spinoza spiritual structure struggle symbol things tion traditional transformation University values Western whole woman women York