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Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature

Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Nature

Vogel, Steven

Paperback

PhilosophyBusiness GeneralEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0262529718
ISBN13: 9780262529716
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 2 2016
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of nature altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.

Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached the end of nature, as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of nature altogether and spoke instead of the environment--that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains.

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