Dirk Willem Postma

Why care for Nature?

In search of an ethical framework for environmental responsibility and education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? 1 George Orwell This book has been written in a time of environmental neglect. A time in which the expansive needs of multinational corporations, western consumer interests and the politically celebrated ideals of economic growth and technological progress appear to override any consideration for preserving natural beauty as well as consideration for those unable to speak and negotiate on their own behalf: third world citizens, future generations, animals, plants and landscapes. This neglect is evident in the withdrawal of national governments from the requirements of international agr- ments on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (Kyoto treaty), it is manifest in the organised inability and unwillingness to establish more equal trade relations between rich and poor countries as well as in the lack of political commitment to p- tect extraordinary sites of natural beauty from economic exploitation (Alaska, the Amazon rainforests, the Dutch Wadden Sea). In times like these, environmental e- cation is a hazardous and primarily ambiguous enterprise, since it easily comes to function as a means to foist present responsibilities onto future generations. Some proponents, for instance, argue that environmental education should 'create a new generation of citizens who are greener than their parents'(Bell, 2004, p. 43). Thus, new born citizens are burdened with environmental responsibilities that we failed to live up to ourselves.

Produktdetails

• The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 9
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-7251-1
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9789048172511
• ISBN-10: 9048172519
• Artikelnr.: 32108221

Inhaltsangabe

Because we are citizens.- Because we are human.- Because we educate citizens caring for nature.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "This fine, timely book by Postma ... will appeal to educators and environmentalists seeking to clarify the best available philosophical foundation for reasoning clearly about environmental responsibilities. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above." (S. A. Mason, Choice, Vol. 45 (1), 2007)