Rising Tides: A History of the Environmental Revolution and Visions for an Ecological Age

by RorySpowers (Author), RorySpowers (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $6.00

  From the Genesis myth to the present day, Rising Tides is an engaging and extensively researched history of ecological thought. Covering a vast spectrum of history and ideas, Spowers visits the most important landmarks in the ecological landscape; and highlights the communities and individuals who have helped shape it. Rising Tides shows how environmental issues have developed from the concerns of an alternative minority to become the most threatening problems of our time. Rising Tides suggests ways in which we can all plug in, rescue our economic system from manipulation by the corporate elite and help to create the sort of world we want to live in.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.35

  Rising Tides is an extensively researched and engagingly written examination of the many factors that have shaped ecological thought. Challenging the basic assumptions of the western world-view, it exposes the fundamental flaws in a political, economic system that believes in unlimited economic growth within a finite world and has confused financial worth with the real wealth of the natural systems which we are all dependent upon. The rift is growing between a powerful elite pushing their policies of globalisation and a world-wide network disillusioned with notions of growth, wealth and progress. Rising Tides suggests ways in which we can all plug into this network - rescue our economic system from manipulation by the corporate elite and help to create the sort of world we want to live in.