Originally published in 1989 Social Philosophy and Ecological
Scarcity presents a systematic study of the implications of
ecological scarcity for social philosophy. The book argues for a
new social philosophy based on a conception of the 'good society'
and the 'good life' which makes fewer, rather than more demands on
scarce ecological resources. The book shows that the two major
competing social philosophies in modern philosophical thought - the
bourgeois liberal and the state socialist - are both forms of
capitalism. Despite their obvious differences, they both pursue the
logic of capitalism, of ever-increasing accumulation, growth and
consumption. This pursuit is carried out by means of modern science
and its technology, which assume that Nature's resources are
inexhaustible and can be exploited to meet infinite human wants or
needs, ignoring ecological scarcity. The recognition of ecological
scarcity would lead to a social philosophy, based on a frugal mode
of socialism which has more affinities with the social visions of
Fourier and Morris than with that of Marx. Their theories, far from
being too 'utopian', are shown as more 'realistic' and less
'fantastic' than either bourgeois capitalism or state capitalism
based on the Marxist model.
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