Ecologism
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- Created on: 11-05-13 19:12
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- Ecologism
- In the 21st Century
- Growing success arguments
- Environmental Crisis has raised awareness and so upped intensity of the movment
- Global warming, climate change, reduced male fertility due to pollution, extinction etc
- Single-issue green parties unsuccessful, BUT, perhaps due to adoption of green strategies by mainstream parties
- Don't have to be members of green parties; regular public initiate green behaviour
- recycling, organic foods etc.
- Green movements joining anti-globalisation movements to increase force and strength, as well as using media priminence
- Environmental Crisis has raised awareness and so upped intensity of the movment
- Problems/long-term limitations
- Sustainable growth/zero tolerance is electorally unattractive so parties may not adopt it
- Debatable as to whether can ever be a truly global phenomenon; unfair to ask developing world to halt development and growth
- Likewise, the prosperous Western states would be reluctant to adopt strategies that would make them forgo the prosperity enjoyed in terms of energy consumption
- US and China
- Consider Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs' -- why should they concern themselves with ecologism when basic needs of growth not being allowed/met?
- Likewise, the prosperous Western states would be reluctant to adopt strategies that would make them forgo the prosperity enjoyed in terms of energy consumption
- Might be post-industrial Romanticism that is just a whim which will fade away in time - restricted to young and affluent currently
- The philosophy of deep ecologism is alien to the culture of time
- Growing success arguments
- Definitions
- relationship between living things and their environments
- Politically it is based on the belief that nature is an interconnected whole; embracing humans and non-humans, plus the inanimate world
- Key Dichotomies
- Shallow (environmental) ecologism -- lessons of nature and ecology to apply to humans and their needs
- Deep ecology -- rejects any sense of anthropocentrism
- Sub-tradition tensions
- Origins
- Green movement emerged in the 1960s
- Principles, however, relate back to Paganism with the concept of Earth Mother. Also Hinduism, Buddhism and taoism - eastern religious ideas
- Origins can also be seen as a reaction to industrialisation in C19 - was a wish to return to an idealised rural life
- Hardy and Morris celebrated rural life and opposed urbanisation
- 'back to nature' - an example of 'pastoralism' which celebrates the peasant life as honourable and pure
- Often a movement associated with young people as a reaction against urbanisation brought by prior generation
- Post-materialism: the rejection of goods and wealth in favour of more spiritual values
- Recently, fear of global-warming etc developed reactionary ecologism. Has become a 'global political issue'
- UN World COmmission on environment and Development since 1972
- Kyoto Protocol (1997) - committed to developed countries limiting greenhouse emissions
- In the 21st Century
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