Chicago Gangster: Theory of Life: Nature's Debt of Society

Title: Chicago Gangster: Theory of Life: Nature's Debt of Society
Author: Andrew Ross
ISBN: 0860914291
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 314
Publisher Description: Increasingly, the most powerful voices on the planet - heads of state, corporation, global economists - are speaking in the name of environmentalism. Strange and scary days for an ecology movement that was conceived in fierce opposition to power. Fractured, as ever, by divisions and competing agendas, the movement must now confront the dangerous tendency of those in power to invoke nature's laws as a model for social well-being. Partly as a result of ecology's influence, biologism is back, and the specters of social Darwinism and Malthusian ideas about natural scarcity have begun to reinforce, if not translate into, calls for a reduction in rights and freedoms in civil society.