The Enviromentalism Of The Poor A Study Of Ecological Conflicts And Valuation Joan Martinezalier by Joan Martinez-alier 9781840649093, 1840649097, 2002023626 instant download after payment.

This is a book about the growth of the environmental movement, an explosion of activism that recalls the beginning of the socialist movement and
the First International, almost a century and a half ago. This time, in the
networks society (as Manuel Castells calls it), there is no executive committee.
The environmental movement grows in reaction to economic growth.
Not all environmentalists are against economic growth. Some might even
be favourable to it because of the technological promises it carries. Indeed,
not all environmentalists think and act alike. I separate here three main
intertwined clusters in the environmental movement: the ‘cult of wilderness’, the ‘gospel of eco-efficiency’ and the ‘environmentalism of the poor’,
which are as channels of a single river, branches of a big tree, or varieties
of the same crop (Guha and Martinez-Alier, 1999, 2000). They have a lot
in common, and all three are opposed by anti-environmentalists or
despised or neglected by them. An explanation of the main clusters of environmentalism is now provided, which will stress the differences among
them. One distinctive trait of each of them, emphasized here, is its relation
to different environmental sciences. Their relations to feminism, or to state
power, or religion, or business interests, or other social movements, are not
less important as defining features.