Ecology and environmental theory
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- World Scientists' Warning to
Humanity
- Union of Concerned Scientists, 18 November 1992. A statement
made by 1680 scientists warning of environmental deterioration.
- Cousteau delivers posthumous attack on human
greed
- By Ben MacIntyre, The Times (London), 30 June
1997. Jacques Cousteau, the celebrated French underwater
explorer who died last week, has issued an apocalyptic
message from the grave, warning that the natural world he
worked to reveal is being devasted by man's greed and
stupidity.
- Ecology and ‘value free’
Marxism
- By Louis Proyect, 22 February 1998. Levins, Lewontin,
Boucher and Harvey are all aggravated by the claim that
some make that the planet is being destroyed by
capitalism. My reaction to Boucher and company is that
their counter-arguments undermine whatever moral
legitimacy Marxism has left.
- Were the Nazis radical
environmentalists?
- From lnp3@columbia.edu, 11 May 1998. It is mistaken that
the Nazi party introduced nature worship into German
society. Nature worship in Germany goes back to the
origins of modern romanticism. It was part of the general
German culture, which influenced the both socialist and
ultraright parties. Antipathy to industralization
widespread in Europe.
- Duke Geologist Decries Using Engineering
Models To Predict Natural Phenomena
- Press Release, 25 January 1999. Using mathematical models
to predict natural processes is a commonplace but
wrongheaded engineering practice that can cause real
harm. According to the emerging guidelines of chaos theory,
there is a huge dependence upon initial conditions.
- Marxism, ecology and the American
Indian
- By Louis Proyect, 7 November 1999. Addresses ‘Marx
and Nature: a Red and Green Perspective’, written in
1999 by Paul Burkett, and an article by John Bellamy Foster,
September 1999 American Journal of Sociology,
‘Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical
Foundations for Environmental Sociology’.
- Whither Humanity? (The Environmental Crisis
of Capitalism)
- By Roland Sheppard, 1999. Since the development of
capitalism, the natural resources of the planet have been
consumed on a larger and larger scale by the profit
system. A result of this process has been a rapid change
in the earth's ecological balance that could
eventually lead to the extinction of humanity.
- Study finds earth's ecosystems on verge
of sudden collapse
- Independent Media Center, 4 January 2002. The
study, published in the prestigious journal NATURE, found
that human impacts on many of the world's ecosystems
could cause them to abruptly shift with little or no warning
from their apparently stable natural condition to very
different, diminished conditions far less able to support
diversity of life, including human.