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The basic thesis of the work is that environmental problems are only to be solved by people - people who will be required to make value judgements in conflicts that go beyond narrowly conceived human concerns. Thus people require not only an ethical system, but a way of conceiving the world and themselves such that the intrinsic value of life and nature is obvious, a system based on 'deep ecological principles'. The book encourages readers to identify their own series of such parameters - their own ecosophies. Ecology, Comunity and Lifestyle will appeal to philosophers, specialists working on environmental issues, and the more general reader who is interested in learning some of the foundational ideas of the rapidly expanding field of environmental philosophy.
The basic thesis of the work is that environmental problems are only to be solved by people - people who will be required to make value judgements in conflicts that go beyond narrowly conceived human concerns. Thus people require not only an ethical system, but a way of conceiving the world and themselves such that the intrinsic value of life and nature is obvious, a system based on 'deep ecological principles'. The book encourages readers to identify their own series of such parameters - their own ecosophies. Ecology, Comunity and Lifestyle will appeal to philosophers, specialists working on environmental issues, and the more general reader who is interested in learning some of the foundational ideas of the rapidly expanding field of environmental philosophy.
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====Economics====
*'''''[http://www.realitysandwich.com/homepage_sacred_economics Sacred Economics]'''''
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In this book I will describe a [[vision]] of a [[money]] system and an economy that is [[sacred]], that embodies the interrelatedness and the uniqueness of all things. No longer will it be [[separate]], in fact or in [[perception]], from the natural matrix that underlies it. It reunites the long-sundered realms of [[human]] and [[nature]]; it is an extension of ecology that obeys all of its laws and bears all of its [[beauty]].
I dedicate all of my work to the more beautiful world our [[hearts]] tell us is possible. I say our "hearts," because our [[minds]] sometimes tell us it is not possible. Our minds [[doubt]] that things will ever be much different from what [[experience]] has taught us. You may have felt a wave of [[cynicism]], [[contempt]], or despair as you read my description of a [[sacred]] [[economy]]. You might have felt an urge to dismiss my words as hopelessly [[idealistic]]. Indeed, I myself was tempted to tone down my description, to make it more plausible, more responsible, more in line with our low [[expectations]] for what life and the world can be. But such an attenuation would not have been the truth. I will, using the [[tools]] of the mind, speak what is in my [[heart]]. In my heart I know that an [[economy]] and society this beautiful are possible for us to create-and indeed that anything less than that is unworthy of us. Are we so broken that we would [[aspire]] to anything less than a sacred world?
*'''''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ME1_WnYYW6UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=schumacher,+small+is+beautiful&hl=en&ei=Dwe7T468G4uK8QTAn9jRCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CDoQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=schumacher%2C%20small%20is%20beautiful&f=false Small is Beautiful]'''''
*'''''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ME1_WnYYW6UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=schumacher,+small+is+beautiful&hl=en&ei=Dwe7T468G4uK8QTAn9jRCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CDoQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q=schumacher%2C%20small%20is%20beautiful&f=false Small is Beautiful]'''''
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