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Book reviews Ecological Revolutions. Nature, Gender, and Science in New England by Carolyn Merchant. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, Marilyn Holly Marilyn Holly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, with a special interest in social/political philosophy and the environment. She has been doing some writing on Colonial/North American Indian value clashes. patterns have been repeated worldwide, leading to a Carolyn Merchant's Ecological Revolutions makes deeply worrisome prognosis for the planet unless a world- an impressive, strong, and extraordinarily well docu- wide transition is made to a worldwide ecocentric ethic ... mented case for the adoption of an ecocentric relationship and the latter would be a third "ecological revolution." to the environment. By "ecocentrism" I mean the view But the book is much more than an ecological manifesto, that all of nature, including humans, is an interconnected more than a cry to citizens of the world to unite in a green web, and the meddling, alteration, or destruction of any revolution, for it documents in close to unprecedented part of the web can affect all the rest, often destructively. and patient detail the almost decade-by-decade complex Put in this way, eeocentrism can be thought of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/BF01591846
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Ecological Revolutions. Nature, Gender, and Science in New England by Carolyn Merchant. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, Marilyn Holly Marilyn Holly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, with a special interest in social/political philosophy and the environment. She has been doing some writing on Colonial/North American Indian value clashes. patterns have been repeated worldwide, leading to a Carolyn Merchant's Ecological Revolutions makes deeply worrisome prognosis for the planet unless a world- an impressive, strong, and extraordinarily well docu- wide transition is made to a worldwide ecocentric ethic ... mented case for the adoption of an ecocentric relationship and the latter would be a third "ecological revolution." to the environment. By "ecocentrism" I mean the view But the book is much more than an ecological manifesto, that all of nature, including humans, is an interconnected more than a cry to citizens of the world to unite in a green web, and the meddling, alteration, or destruction of any revolution, for it documents in close to unprecedented part of the web can affect all the rest, often destructively. and patient detail the almost decade-by-decade complex Put in this way, eeocentrism can be thought of

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Agriculture and Human ValuesSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 15, 2005

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