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This accomplished book argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. It asks whether there is an emerging consensus between social scientists on the central issues in the debate on environmental change, and if concerns about the environment constitute a major prop to the process of globalization? The book provides a thorough discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.
Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and ‘Sustainable Development’
Self-Organizing Complexity, Conscious Purpose and ‘Sustainable Development’
Now, all right, let us say we are now paleontologists and we are studying fossil Bread-and-butter-flies and we wonder why they became extinct. The answer is not that they became extinct because their heads were made of sugar. The answer is not that they became extinct because they couldn't find their food. The answer is that they became extinct because they were caught in a dilemma; and the world is made that way, and is not made the linear single-purpose way. (Bateson, 1991: 279)
Progress and Doom are two sides of the same medal (…) both are articles of superstition, not of faith. (Arendt, 1967: xxix)
I expanded without time for proper planning, without ...
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