Analyzes the relations of humanity to nature from the different perspectives of ecological science and the environmental movement. The authors argue that the ecology movement is a mass of contradictions and is in part paralyzed by turning to the past in search of a lost paradise, a state when humanity and nature were "in balance". The social history of nature and the natural history of humanity are analyzed from the mutually supporting viewpoints of environmental movements and ecological science. Environmental movements can be successful only if they adopt the political perspective of human liberation, and the science of ecology needs to unite the concerns of the science with those of the movement.
- ISBN10 0745306691
- ISBN13 9780745306698
- Publish Date 20 January 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pluto Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 270
- Language English