Healing a Wounded World: Economics, Ecology, and Health for a Sustainable Life / Edition 1

by Graham Lyons, Gary Sauer-Thompson, Joseph Wayne Smith

Overview

This scientifically rigorous and philosophically sophisticated defense of environmentalism is meant to excite, educate, and alarm the reader. There is a widespread scientific and public recognition that the world is facing an environmental crisis of vast proportions. What is the relationship between the growth of human population and industrial activity on one hand and the environmental crisis on the other? If this is not determined and dealt with, Earth's ecology may be expected to collapse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275956011
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is Senior Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Dr. Smith is a widely published author on the subject of the future of the earth.

GRAHAM LYONS is a leading Adelaide businessman, cattle rancher, and environmentalist.

GARY SAUER-THOMPSON is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Flinders University of South Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Wounded World: Can Civilization Be Sustained?
Global Meltdown: Population Growth and Environmental Destruction
The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Postmodernity and the Crisis of Philosophy, Science and Knowledge
Economic Irrationalism: Against Cosmopolitan Economics
Endgame: Healing a Wounded World
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A geographer, an environmentalist cattle rancher, and a philosopher, all from Australia, argue that the New World Order is breaking down, that the world is hurtling toward political and social chaos, that the crises of civilization have not been resolved, and that their festering will lead to the poisoning and ultimately the death of the social and political world we know. They continue their discussion in the subsequent volume "Global Meltdown: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and National Breakdown in the New World Disorder". Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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