Is the end nigh? : internationalism, global chaos and the destruction of the earth
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書誌事項
Is the end nigh? : internationalism, global chaos and the destruction of the earth
（Avebury series in philosophy）
Avebury, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This work examines the environmental crisis within the context of the internationalization or globalization of people and nations. The existence of life on Earth - and certainly human life - has been called into question in the twentieth century, first through the threat of nuclear obliteration and climate alteration (the enhanced greenhouse effect and destruction of the Earth's ozone shield), environmental pollution, exploding human population growth and the destruction of species and genetic diversity. Many people believe that these 'global' dangers represent a crisis of such a magnitude that they can only be effectively dealt with by a 'global' response, in particular by the abandonment of the sovereignty of nations and the construction of a one world government in some shape or form. This 'new world order' would also save us from ourselves, bringing about an era of sustainable peace on Earth. It is argued here that this internationalist vision cannot succeed; it will destroy the environment, not preserve it, and bring about an era of turmoil and warfare, not peace. In particular, it is demonstrated that the environmental crisis is in part a product of internationalism. This book examines the deleterious consequences of internationalism with respect to major environmental and political debates such as ecologically sustainable development, technology and human freedom, economic rationalism and economic internationalism, immigration and human population expansion, racial and ethnic conflict and the globalization of epidemic diseases.
目次
- Contents: Racing to the brink of an abyss: reflections on a world hurtling towards disaster
- Globalizing disease
- The end of growth
- Why high technology won't save us: a Luddite analysis
- People: the ultimate problem. Against immigration and the globalization of population
- The new world disaster: dismantling internationalism
- The bankruptcy of economics
- Markets, money and madness: a critique of economic rationalism and economic internationalism
- The end is nigh: ecologically sustainable development is a failure
- Index.
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