Environmental Skepticism: Ecology, Power and Public Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754671022)

'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how environmental skepticism has been organized by mostly US-based conservative think tanks as an anti-environmental counter-movement. This is the first book to analyze the importance of the US conservative counter-movement in world politics and its meaning for democratic and accountable deliberation, as well as its importance as a mal-adaptive project that hinders the world's people to rise to the challenges of sustainability. Specific consideration is given to the threat of the counter-movement to marginalized people of the world and its philosophical implications through its commitment to a 'deep anthropocentrism'.

Author: Peter J. Jacques
ISBN-10: 075467102X
ISBN-13: 9780754671022
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2009
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 160