New Ecological Order

"Ferry starts this study of enviromental ethics back in the 16th century when troublesome beetles and leeches were put on trial....Such evenhandedness was dealt a death blow by Cartesianism, that perfect model of anthropocentrism in which all rights went to man and none to nature....Now enviromental activitists are demanding a new ecological mindset, one in which nature writ large has the same rights as humans. At the far end of this movement are the deep ecologists, who question whether humans will ever be able to live in harmony with nature. Ferry finds them appalling: antihuman, with tendencies toward authoritarianism, dogmatism, and a stong anticultural streak....a closly argued, well-documented, senitive critique."Ferry, Luc is the author of 'New Ecological Order', published 1995 under ISBN 9780226244839 and ISBN 0226244830.