When I was invited a few years ago to attend a meeting of the once classical liberal Mt. Pelerin Society in Salt Lake City I was surprised to hear little in the way of informed conversation about markets and ecologies. … Read more
Category: Ecology/Nature
“Connecting the Dots: Hayek, Darwin, and Ecology” COSMOS + TAXIS, vol 5 | issue 3 + 4 2018
Social institutions viewed from a Hayekian perspective closely match evolutionary and ecological perspectives in biology. All rely on the same systemic relationships of variation, selection, and inheritance. What Hayek called spontaneous orders are variations of a larger range of related … Read more
Hayekian Insights on Capitalism Part III: Capitalism and Nature
Capitalism 3.0: A Wonderful Book
Peter Barnes, a founder of the progressive phone company Credo and of the Mesa Refuge, has written Capitalism 3.0, a very important book on how the threat of global warming could be solved quickly from within a market context. Sadly … Read more
Re-thinking the Obvious: Modernity and Living Respectfully with Nature
Creating Institutions of Care: The Case for Democratic Forest Trusts
In: Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2005. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2005 September 30–October 6; Anchorage, AK. Proceedings RMRS-P-000. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, … Read more
Earth Day 2015: a Pagan take
My piece on it is over at Witches and Pagans.… Read more
Complexity and the Dream of Human Control of Eco-Systems
Complexity and the Dream of Human Control of Eco-Systems
Gus diZerega
Watson, Alan; Dean, Liese; Sproull, Janet, comps. 2005. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium; 2005 September 30–October 6; Anchorage, AK. … Read more
Deep Ecology and Liberalism: The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberal Theory
DEEP ECOLOGY AND LIBERALISM:
The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberal Theory
Review of Politics, 58:4, Fall, 1996.
Gus diZerega
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DEEP ECOLOGY AND LIBERALISM: A RECONCILIATION: The Greener Implications of Evolutionary Liberal Theory
Modern environmentalism has two dimensions. The … Read more