After Sustainability - Denial, Hope, Retrieval (Paperback)

While struggling to deny it, many practising environmentalists already suspect what they cannot admit: that it is now too late for sustainability. This book makes clear why that is true, but rather than despairing, it explores where coming out of denial could take us. It shows where the deep environmental crisis truly lies, in the way we think about ourselves and our lives as much as in our material arrangements. This in turn suggests what we might be able to retrieve from breakdown. Giving an original philosophical account, After Sustainability argues that the roots of our embedded denial lie in progressivism which, either as insatiable material consumption or as the self-blinded optimism of sustainable development, underlies the whole environmental problematic. As progressivism has provided the impetus for many genuine advances in material welfare, this book shows that our environmental situation is tragic in the full sense and entails losses which cannot be mitigated or compensated. But it also reveals us to ourselves and shows how we can break free from a progressive mindset in conceptual and practical terms.This book thus develops a unique account of natural responsibility in environmental-philosophical terms, and also challenges the conventional modern conception of the individual without embracing any sort of quasi-mystical 'ecological self'. It concludes by suggesting what may be possible politically, educationally and economically, if we approach what is coming with honesty and a new realism grounded in genuinely non-optimistic life-hope. This book is essential reading for students and researchers in environment and sustainability, geography, sociology, philosophy, climate change and economics. Academically informed, it is accessible to an interested general reader, as well as to policy makers and environmentalists.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	John Foster
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-70640-7
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Promotions
LSN:	0-415-70640-8
Barcode:	9780415706407

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