Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis

Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis: "Beyond Materialism: A Coevolutionary Reinterpretation of the Environmental Crisis
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Norgaard, Richard B
Abstract

Materialism, both as a vision of the good life and as a cosmological basis underlying epistemology and modern science, drives humanity's environmental crisis. The dominant thrust of the environmental movement has been simply to shift to a longer slower materialism. Understanding how materialism creates our environmental problems and limits our vision of the good life is a necessary step toward creating a different future. Understanding development as a process of coevolution between knowledge, technology, social organization, values, and nature provides an alternative cosmological and epistemological framing which both gives us perspective on materialism and suggests an alternative vision for the future. Copyright 1995 by Taylor and Francis Group"