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Ecological Governance - Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth (Hardcover)
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Ecological Governance - Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth (Hardcover)
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As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision
course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity
to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy,
he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require
dramatic changes in the way we approach the natural world? Must a
more effective governance be less democratic and more autocratic?
Or can a new form of grassroots ecological democracy save us from
ourselves and the false promises of material consumption run amok?
Ecological Governance is an ethicist's reckoning with how our
political culture, broadly construed, must change in response to
climate change. Jennings argues that during the Anthropocene era a
social contract of consumption has been forged. Under it people
have given political and economic control to elites in exchange for
the promise of economic growth. In a new political economy of the
future, the terms of the consumptive contract cannot be met without
severe ecological damage. We will need a new guiding vision and
collective aim, a new social contract of ecological trusteeship and
responsibility.
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