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	<title>sustainable china &#187; Gus Speth</title>
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		<title>is democracy good for sustainability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a course in religion and the environment this term, and my students are preparing to debate this very question: is democracy good for sustainability? By way of background, they have been reading Judith Shapiro&#8217;s book Mao&#8217;s War Against Nature, which forcefully details the way that Maoist ideology trumped scientific reason in charting China&#8217;s development in the twentieth century, resulting in famine, population explosion, and environmental disaster. The question is, does this argument still hold today? In his recent International Herald Tribune op-ed about Pan Yue, vice-minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Daniel Gardner writes approvingly of China&#8217;s new-found faith in sustainability (props to John Liu at Yale University for sending me the link). Gardner says: &#8230; Chinese indifference to the environment is a myth. In the last few years China has begun to take aggressive action to bring its air and water pollution under control. Here are a few examples: China&#8217;s fuel-efficiency standard for cars is currently pegged at 43 miles per gallon, which means that when America&#8217;s 2020 standards of 35 mpg go into effect they&#8217;ll be lower than China&#8217;s minimum standard of today. Coal-fired plants must install or retrofit filtering devices in their smokestacks. Chief executives of companies found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the end of environmentalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Miller In October I was invited to participate in a symposium on International Perspectives on Nature and Culture organized by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I was on a panel responding to a paper by the French philosopher Augustin Berque. His most recent book is called La pensée paysagère (Paris: Archibooks 2008), and it articulates a fundamental distinction between “thinking of the countryside” or “la pensée du paysage” and “country thinking” or “la pensée paysagère.” In modernity, he claims, we have ideas about “nature” or “the environment,” but we do not have ideas that are grounded in nature as a biophysical reality or which express themselves in the flourishing of nature. We have too much “pensée du paysage” and not enough “pensée paysagère.” The contradiction of modernity is that the theorization, symbolization and fetishization of nature as a concept proceeds apace and at the very same time as the annihilation of nature as a biophysical reality. The thought that &#8220;environmentalism&#8221; is a kind of fetish that actually hinders the progress towards ecological sustainability came to me again when I heard a talk given by Gus Speth, the Dean of the School of [...]]]></description>
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