By Michael F. Maniates;John M. Meyer
The belief of sacrifice is the unstated factor of environmental politics. Politicians, the media, and lots of environmentalists think that well-off populations will not make sacrifices now for destiny environmental advantages and will not swap their styles and perceptions of intake to make ecological room for the world's 3 billion or so bad wanting to increase their way of life. The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice demanding situations those assumptions, arguing that they restrict our coverage strategies, weaken our skill to visualize daring motion for swap, and blind us to the methods sacrifice already figures in daily life. the idea that of sacrifice has been interestingly unexamined in either activist and educational conversations approximately environmental politics, and this booklet is the 1st to confront it without delay. The chapters deliver quite a few disciplinary views to the subject. participants supply choices to the normal knowledge on sacrifice; determine connections among sacrifice and human achievement in daily life, discovering such concrete examples as mom and dad' sacrifices in elevating youngsters, spiritual perform, artists' pursuit in their paintings, and squaddies and policemen who chance their lives to do their jobs; and think about specific rules and practices that form our figuring out of environmental difficulties, together with the carbon tax, incentives for cyclists, and the perils of eco-friendly intake. The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice places "sacrifice" firmly into the dialog approximately potent environmental politics and regulations, insisting that activists and students do greater than swap the topic while the belief is introduced.Contributors Peter Cannav?, Shane Gunster, Cheryl corridor, Karen Litfin, Michael Maniates, John M. Meyer, Simon Nicholson, Anna Peterson, Thomas Princen, Sudhir Chella Rajan, Paul Wapner, Justin Williams
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It is because they are convinced that the “trends [are] already in place” that they assert that this imagined world is neither naive nor utopian, but likely. Where do citizens fit into this vision of progress? The answer is somewhat elusive, yet beguiling. It seems to go like this: read their book; embrace the bright future; hop on board before the natural capitalism train leaves the station. 50 Sacrifice—loss of any kind—is uncalled for; their vision is presented as 28 John M. 51 A democratic politics must, then, recognize the deep inadequacies of a dichotomy between self-interest narrowly construed as egoism versus altruism understood as selflessness.
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10. Allen, Talking to Strangers, 137–138. 11. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence, ed. J. P. Mayer (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969), 525. 12. Allen, Talking to Strangers, 138. 13. a. 14. Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 97–98; cf. M. F. C. , Sacrifice (London: Academic Press, 1980), 10–12. 15. Hubert and Mauss, Sacrifice, 100; emphasis added. 16. a. 17. Andrew McLaughlin, Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 184.