Ebook: Plato's revenge: politics in the age of ecology
Author: Ophuls William
- Tags: Écologie humaine, Environmental policy--Social aspects, Environnement--Politique gouvernementale, Human ecology, Philosophie politique, Politique de l'environnement, Science politique--Philosophie, Sociologie, Environmental policy -- Social aspects, Environnement -- Politique gouvernementale, Science politique -- Philosophie, Écologie humaine
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- City: Cambridge;Mass
- Language: English
- epub
In this provocative call for a new ecological politics, William Ophuls starts from a radical premise: "sustainability" is impossible. We are on an industrial Titanic, fueled by rapidly depleting stocks of fossil hydrocarbons. Making the deck chairs from recyclable materials and feeding the boilers with biofuels is futile. In the end, the ship is doomed by the laws of thermodynamics and by the implacable biological and geological limits that are already beginning to pinch. Ophuls warns us that we are headed for a postindustrial future that, however technologically sophisticated, will resemble the preindustrial past in many important respects. With Plato's Revenge, Ophuls, author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, envisions political and social transformations that will lead to a new natural-law politics based on the realities of ecology, physics, and psychology.In a discussion that ranges widely — from ecology to quantum physics to Jungian...