![]() ![]() ![]() Techno-science and global capitalism have brought us to a threshold, profoundly transforming our ecological and cultural legacies. We have become god-like in our powers to alter the evolutionary trajectory of nature for better or worse. ![]() Our species numbers 6.8 billion and is still growing. The exponential growth in human population and consumption patterns has significantly altered every bioregional ecosystem of the world and the atmospheric chemistry of planet. We are in the midst of an epochal transition in the material, causal, and symbolic relationship between human cultures and other-than-human natures. Throughout he argues that we live in a remarkable moment in the natural history of our planet and in the cultural evolution of our species. Politics by Other Means is a collection of essays written by William Grassie. The emergence of an ecological consciousness is shown to be part of the process of revolutionizing society, restructuring power, changing culture and emphasising the quality of individual lives over the quantity of material accumulation and possession. Social and environmental justice are shown to be mutually supportive, the low-carbon economy which is a condition of the survival of civilised life also being socially just, egalitarian and democratic. This part examines the nature of the environmental crisis, paying particular attention to climate change and global poverty and inequality. A fundamental critical self-examination of ourselves and our communities of struggle is necessary to locate and situate the choices, possibilities and strategies with respect to the circumscribed options within the system and the feasible alternatives to that system. The perspective taken is that one civilisation is in the process of decay and another in the process of emerging. The environmental crisis is considered to be the product of a wider system failure. The Emerging Ecological Consciousness This part connects the contemporary environmental crisis with the wider societal crisis. ![]()
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