Joy A. Palmer - Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (Fifty Key Thinkers)

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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy Palmer has assembled a team of over twenty expert contributors to summarize and analyze the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures from all over the world and from ancient times to the present. Among those included are philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, activists such as Chico Mendes, literary giants such as Virgil, and major religious figures such as Gotama (The Buddha). Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind's view and understanding of the physical world.

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History of environmental thinking This book is an anthology on environmental thinking with biographical essays from ancient to present period throughout the world. Fifty essays, covering 50 personalities, begins with quotations which beautifully expresses the environmental thinking. Various personalities are from religion as Buddha;spiritual as St.Francis Assisi;philosopher as Rousseau, Heidegger;environmental philosopher as Rachael carson, John Muir;environmental activist as Chica Mendes;economist as Karl Marx, E.F.Schumacher;literary persons as Gothe, Wordsworth, Rabindranath Tagore;and person as Gandhi, M.K. and Nobel peace prize winner as Albert Schweitzer. Buddha said 'How astonishing it is, that man should be so evil as to break a branch of the tree, after eating his fills." Martin Heideggar quoted, 'Man is not the lord of being, man is the shephard of being." E.F.Schumacher, an ecological economist wrote in his book'small is beautiful' as follows "fight against pollution cannot be successful if the patterns of production and consumption continue to be of scale, a complexity, and a degree of violence, which, as is becoming more and more apparent, donot fit into the laws of universe, to which man is just as much subject as the rest of creation."

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About the Author

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Joy Palmer is Pro-Vice Chancellor at Durham University. Her books include The Handbook of Environmental Education(1994) and Spirit of the Environment both published by Routledge

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