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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. The Tragedy of a False Dichotomy

Author : R. S. Deese

Published in: Climate Change and the Future of Democracy

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Two false dichotomies have distorted our thinking about environmental issues since the mid-twentieth century. The first is a tendency to place human rights and ecological sustainability in opposition to each other. This tendency was epitomized by those Malthusian environmentalists who advocated both eugenics and strict governmental control over human reproduction in the name of ecological sustainability. The second false dichotomy is the tendency to view technology and nature as antithetical. This has been evident across the spectrum of popular culture, where some of the most acclaimed films with environmental themes frame nature and technology as inherently opposed to one another. Each of these false dichotomies must be transcended if we are to understand and address environmental challenges such as climate change.

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Metadata
Title
The Tragedy of a False Dichotomy
Author
R. S. Deese
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Climate Change and the Future of Democracy

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98306-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98307-3

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98307-3_4