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The Pursuit of Ecotopia - Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World (Hardcover)
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The Pursuit of Ecotopia - Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World (Hardcover)
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The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our
high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt
the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to
the modern world. Traditional societies have much to teach the
modern world about conservation and environmental management. The
Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional
Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the
root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern
ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act
cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term,
narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a
long-term, global view of "ecotopia"—a conception in which the
destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally
grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and
stewardship. In this controversial and brilliantly written book,
author E. N. Anderson maintains that the world can escape impending
ecological disaster only by embracing a political and ethical
transformation that will imbue modern societies with the same
shared sense of emotional rationality practiced by traditional
cultures. He draws lessons from ecologically successful traditional
societies—and also draws cautionary tales from traditional
societies that have responded maladaptively to disruption and
failed ecologically as a result.
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