How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism - Roger Scruton Audiobook
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The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution.
In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. The environmental movement, he contends, is philosophically confused and has unrealistic agendas. Its sights are directed at the largescale events and the confrontation between international politics and multinational business. But Scruton argues that no large-scale environmental project, however well-intentioned, will succeed if it is not rooted in small-scale practical reasoning. Seeing things on a large scale promotes top-down solutions, managed by unaccountable bureaucracies that fail to assess local conditions and are rife with unintended consequences. Scruton argues for the greater efficacy of local initiatives over global schemes, civil association over political activism, and small-scale institutions of friendship over regulatory hyper-vigilance. And he suggests that conservatism is far better suited to solving environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. Rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and foster local control. People must be empowered to take charge of their environment, to care for it as they would a home, and to involve themselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of conservative politics.
Our common future is by no means assured, but as Roger Scruton clearly demonstrates in this important book, there is a path that can ensure the future safety of our planet and our species.
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This post has 9 comments
January 26th, 2020
My thoughts exactly. Shutup Greta.
January 26th, 2020
So, Scruton condemns “unaccountable bureaucracies that fail to assess local conditions and are rife with unintended consequences,” right? Surely that description applies to multinational businesses too. When done right, environmental legislation & regulation should enable local communities to regain control from business interests to protect the environment. But if the majority of local communities are economically dependent on business interests which, in turn, depend on unsustainable resource extraction, then the solution isn’t so simple as a return to local control. In such cases, the public (via govt) needs to pay people a good basic income and help them earn environmentally sustainable livings if they wish to remain in the local area. Such govt spending is nothing compared to the costs of runaway climate change, loss of habitat, etc. (To take one example: the loss of habitat, of true wilderness, is the root cause of many new diseases, like ebola, sars & coronavirus, etc.)
January 26th, 2020
Wishful thinking is all I will say. I wish it wasn’t so.
January 26th, 2020
Eastern European communists treated the land as well as they treated their people. China has a horrible record environmental record. Communism destroys people and the planet. Big government and big corporations attract selfish individuals who do not care about the environment. Mr. Scrutun is correct that environmentalism has been hijacked by people more concerned with spreading communism than saving the planet. Their actions speak far louder than their words.
January 27th, 2020
This is just a way to excuse big business of their responsibilities. ‘Local groups’ are hardly going to be able to do anything about massive oil and chemical companies are they? We have to move away from Money being the central goal to quality of life.
January 27th, 2020
Zombie13; Spot on my friend, spot on.
February 7th, 2020
Climate scientists say that the laws of science prevent them from ever saying anything is 100% proven, even if it’s about SAVING THE PLANET?
Only science gets to say “proven”, not you.
February 9th, 2020
This one is on my Hoopla list. How can someone be a conservative and not a conservationist?
March 30th, 2020
please upload Capital and Ideology by thomas piketty
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