Plato's Revenge: Politics In The Age Of Ecology by William Ophuls

A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of “sustainability. ” In this provocative call for a new ecological politics, William Ophuls starts from a radical premise: “sustainability” is impossible. We are on an industrial Titanic , fueled by rapidly depleting stocks of fossil hydrocarbons. Making the deck chairs from recyclable materials and feeding the boilers with biofuels is futile. In the end, the ship is doomed by the laws of thermodynamics and by the implacable biological and geological limits that are already beginning to pinch. Ophuls warns us that we are headed for a postindustrial future that, however technologically sophisticated, will resemble the preindustrial past in many important respects.

Publisher:	MIT Press
Year:	2013
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780262525282
Condition:	Very Good

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SKU: 1595324
Location: Politics