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Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet Hardcover – 1 Jan 2012

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  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books; First Edition edition (Jan. 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1848870760
  • ISBN-13: 978-1848870765
  • Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 4 x 23.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 677,186 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A dazzling book --Sunday Times

Beautifully written and ambitious in its scope... An immensely readable book and a valuable contribution to the debate over environmental politics. --Independent

The Tories want the environmental agenda back and they have one of the best philosophers of our time leading the charge. --Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher who has written on aesthetics, politics, music and architecture. He is Research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Washington and Oxford and is Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. His most recent books include A Dictionary of Political Thought; England: An Elegy; Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde; News from Somewhere: On Settling A Political Philosophy; Gentle Regrets and On Hunting.

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5.0 out of 5 starsGreen Philosophy
By James Atkins on 5 Mar. 2012
Format: Hardcover
This book is very important because it gives a "right-wingers" view on how to save the environment. It rejects global agreements as being socialistic in nature, and suggests that environmental policy should go with human nature rather than against it, if we want it to be successful. Scruton identifies the love of home and respect for ancestors and (thereby) our descendents as that instinct which can be harnessed to get people to protect nature. He doesn't go much further than that - it is about the philosophy rather than the politics of the problem, so it does not say how to turn that philosophical grounding into an alternative political approach.

I think there are some simplifications and there is definitely a lot more that could be said on the topic, but it lays out the groundwork for a right-wing philosophy. Perhaps if right-wing climate change deniers were to read this book, they would feel less uncomfortable about accepting the science of climate change. For it would give them a basis, consistent with their own beliefs, for addressing the predicament.

Scruton exaggerates the difference between right and left wing in this matter. A more germane distinction comes out from his book if you persevere: the distinction between people who want to think big and global, and people who want to think small and local. He favours the latter, for many sound reasons which I agree with. There is a strong tradition (Steiner, Kohr, Schumacher) which describes the folly of big schemes and the wisdom of local ones. Scruton unfortunately does not examine thoroughly whether the small and local approach is adequate in the urgent situation we find ourselves in with climate change.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat the Planet Needs
By Mrs. J. PIRES-OBRIEN on 24 July 2012
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Roger Scruton's Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously about the Planet is an outstanding book on the environment that shows how moral philosophy can be translated into policy. It is a massively comprehensive book that leaves no stone unturned in relation to rationalities and approaches that have been proposed to protect the environment, analysing them from many angles. There are two expectations behind his meticulous inquiry into the physical and the moral aspects of choices. The first is that it will provide all the facts needed to understand environmental problems; the second is that such understanding will recreate the moral connection between individuals and their immediate environment. As Scruton points out, this moral connection is already latent in humans and is based on the need for nurture and safety. These two expectations lead to what Scruton calls oikophilia, which literally means the love of one's home, which is the key to unlock the moral connection that motivates people to look after their environmental resources in a spirit of stewardship.

Oikophilia works, Scruton explains, by promoting human resilience, autonomous associations, market solutions, effective tort law, aesthetic side-constraints which emerge from open discussions among citizens, biodiversity, natural beauty, local autonomy, serious research, and a regime of pricing and feedback that return the costs of environmental damage to those who create them. These are precisely the kind of things `which have a healthy environment as their effect'. This long list of things is, of course, part of the conservative morality which Scruton recommends.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsA good read but is the philosophy fit for purpose?
By Mike Childs on 8 May 2012
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Is Roger Scruton a friend of the earth?

In his new book Green Philosophy the conservative thinker supports decentralised energy, local farmers markets, carbon taxes, publicly-funded research into clean energy and careful consumption through, for example, taking holidays that "we can reach without burning up the planet". He dislikes large-scale agribusinesses that destroy wildlife and soil, the carelessness of multinationals that lead to environmental disasters like the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the willingness of governments to do corporate bidding.

He decries the uglification of our towns and cities through advertising hoardings, out of town shopping, and a throwaway society that has created the scourge of plastic pollution across the globe. He passionately calls for greater consideration for the needs of future generations, recognition of the beauty of our landscapes and for politics guided by morality rather than attempts to put an economic price on everything.

In all these things I am in agreement with him.

I also agree with his desire to localise decision-making as much as is possible and appropriate, reignite and support people coming together to protect their local environment, and his recognition that "what is needed may not be more growth but less."
But I'm not convinced his approach is fit for purpose, for the following reasons.

He rejects a global treaty on climate change as "useless" because he doesn't think other countries will deliver on promises. He rejects the development of long-term plans. He is disparaging about the European Union's efforts. He rejects setting goals to reduce global inequalities.

In short, he doesn't particularly like government. And certainly not big government.Read more ›
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