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Liberty and the Ecological Crisis: Freedom on a Finite Planet book cover

1st Edition

Liberty and the Ecological Crisis Freedom on a Finite Planet

Edited By Christopher J. Orr, Kaitlin Kish, Bruce Jennings Copyright 2020
290 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization’s ability to live within ecological limits. Freedom, in all its renditions – choice, thought, action – has become inextricably linked to our understanding of what it means to be modern citizens. And yet, it is our relatively unbounded freedom that has resulted in so much ecological devastation. Liberty has piggy-backed on... Read more

1. Introduction

Bruce Jennings, Kaitlin Kish, and Christopher J. Orr

Part I Navigating Wicked Dilemmas of Liberty and Agency in the Anthropocene

2. Liberty in the near Anthropocene: State, Market, and Livelihood

Stephen Quilley

3. Nations and Nationalism in the Anthropocene

Steven J. Mock

4. Reclaiming Freedom Through Prefigurative Politics

Kaitlin Kish

Part II Seeds of Freedom and Nature in Modern Traditions

5. Are Freedom and Interdependency Compatible? Lessons from Classical Liberal and Contemporary Feminist Theory

Amy R. McCready

6. Limits and Liberty in the Anthropocene

Peter F. Cannavò

7. The Virtue Ethics Alternative to Freedom for a Mutually Beneficial Human-Earth Relationship

Anna Beresford

8. Who Stands for Uŋčí Makhá: The Liberal Nation-State, Racism, Freedom, and Nature

Jeffery L. Nicholas

9. Nature, Liberty, and Ontology: Why Nature Experience Still Exists and Matters in the Anthropocene

Piers H.G. Stephens

Part III Resisting the Undertow of Modernity

10. Liberation from excess – a post-growth economy case for freedom in the Anthropocene

Rafael Ziegler

11. Cognitively Unstable Rational Agents: A New Challenge for Economics in the Anthropocene?

Morgan Tait

12. The Civilicene and its Alternatives: Anthropology and its Longue Durée

Joshua Sterlin

13. Defending and Driving the Climate Movement by Redefining Freedom

Aaron Karp

Part IV From Navigating the Anthropocene to Being in the Ecozoic

14. A Beginners Guide to Avoiding Bad Policy Mistakes in the Anthropocene

Martin Hensher

15. Liberty, energy and complexity in the Longue Durée

Stephen Quilley

16. Forest on Trial: Towards a Relational Theory of Legal Agency for Transitions into the Ecozoic

Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio

17. From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to Harmony in the Ecozoic

Christopher J. Orr and Peter G. Brown

　

Biography

Christopher J. Orr is a PhD candidate as part of the Economics for the Anthropocene project in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, Canada.

Kaitlin Kish is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Economics for the Anthropocene project at McGill University and lecturer at the University of British Columbia's Haida Gwaii Institute, Canada.

Bruce Jennings is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago, and Senior Advisor and Fellow at The Hastings Center in New York.

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