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  title info:
    title: Ecofundamentalism
    sub title: a critique of extreme environmentalism
  name:
    name part: Hannesson, Rögnvaldur.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vii, 121 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Everyone has heard of environmentalism, but what is it? Is it ideology or religion? Like socialism, environmentalism is a political program, but even more diffuse. Environmentalists hold diverse opinions, from wanting to take care of nature in human interest to putting nature above man. The latter is religious environmentalism, with nature taking the place of the supernatural. This book is a critique of this type of environmentalism, appropriately named ecofundamentalism. This may be a minority or even marginal opinion, but it seems to shape people's thinking to an unwarranted degree. In the worst of cases, it would bring the end of civilization as we know it. Without massive monocultures, supported by pesticides and fertilizer, we could never feed ourselves. Almost 90 percent of our primary energy comes from fossil fuels, without which there would be no air travel, cars and trucks, reliable electricity, and even much of our food supply. Putting a premium on biodiversity and getting serious about greenhouse gas emissions would force us to go without these things, putting us back in the Middle Ages. Fortunately, there is no need to heed any of these environmentalist prescriptions. Contrary to the notion that economic growth is unsustainable and our core problem, it is actually the core solution. Economic growth and technology has made it possible for food production to outpace population growth since the industrial revolution. Economic growth is one reason why population growth worldwide has fallen so that the "population bomb" may never explode. It has also made us largely independent of the weather except for growing our crops. Meanwhile, ecofundamentalism would cause more harm than good.
  note: Rögnvaldur Hannesson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Deep ecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental ethics
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
  classification: GE195 .H358 2014eb
  classification: 363.7
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    title info:
      title: Ecofundamentalism
    name:
      name part: Hannesson, Rögnvaldur.
    identifier: (DLC) 2013048012
    identifier: (OCoLC)863789554
  identifier: 9780739189641 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780739189634
  identifier: 0739189638
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 140303
    record change date: 20250816212337.6
    record identifier: in00003474535
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng