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Document Details : Title: Environmental Optimism Author(s): MELLE, Ullrich Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 4 Issue: 3 Date: Octobre 1997 Pages: 191-203 DOI: 10.2143/EP.4.3.563002 Abstract : Recently there has arisen a new wave of optimism in the discussions about the environment. According to Gregg Easterbrook, one of the most prominent of the environmental optimists, we are presently witnessing fundamental and far-reaching changes for the better: 'the Western world today is on the verge of the greatest ecological renewal that humankind has known; perhaps the greatest that the Earth has known' (Easterbrook, xvi). |
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