"Economic Ideology about the Environment: From Adam Smith to Bjørn Lomborg"
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
The author recognizes techniques of ideological distortion (i.e., mixing knowledge with beliefs and preferences) in the argumentation of economist Bjørn Lomborg.
An interview with Joachim Radkau, professor of history at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and author of Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment..
Stephen M. Gardiner discusses climate change, intergenerational ethics, and the convergence of problems which make climate change “a perfect moral storm.”
This paper looks at the history of attempts to influence the conservation and management of the world’s forests through the creation of international organisations since the 1890s. The attempts are seen in the context of changes in the world political economy, changes to the forests themselves, and changing ideas about how forests should be conserved and managed.
The article examines how the Japanese occupation of Malaysia between 1942 and 1945 highlights the interrelation between war and the natural environment as forming an integral part of the national narrative and global environmentalism.
William Major examines the need to understand pacifism and environmentalism as essentially consonant philosophies and practices.
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Bruno Latour explores the political import of the notion of “ecomodernism.”
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Rosemary-Claire Collard, Jessica Dempsey, and Juanita Sundberg critique the manifesto as fostering amnesia: amnesia about the uneven and violent nature of modernization as well as about the struggles that have underpinned efforts to alleviate inequality and violence.
In this special commentary section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Clive Hamilton examines Erle Ellis’ ‘good Anthropocene,’ an unlikely juxtaposition which has now been amplified into the idea of the “great Anthropocene” and set out in An Ecomodernist Manifesto.
In this Special Commentary Section titled “Replies to An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” edited by Eileen Crist and Thom Van Dooren, Bronislaw Szerszynski examines ecomodernism through the metaphor of “conscious uncoupling,” suggested in an essay by Habib Sadeghi and Sherry Sami.