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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory by Teena Gabrielson
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April 2, 2024 – Started Reading
April 2, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read
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April 8, 2024 –
page 39
5.72% "Environmental crisis will surely threaten core values and practices of freedom, democracy, and community: a town, or a planet, that is severely impacted by environmental crisis will not be congenial to values of democracy, justice, and civil liberties. Political theorists, not just those who write on environmental topics, need to understand these connections."
April 25, 2024 –
page 89
13.05% "Environmental Political Theory and Republicanism by Peter F. Cannavò"
April 29, 2024 –
page 100
14.66% "Freedom is still largely confined to the ability to choose between pre-given commodities offered on the market, and between bureaucratic and ideologically similar political parties [...] Despite our tremendous productive capacity as a species [...], our sense of autonomy remains highly circumscribed. This disjuncture is still maintained by obscuring our needs from ourselves."
May 5, 2024 –
page 193
28.3%
May 13, 2024 –
page 244
35.78% "[...] the (negative) duty “to avoid depriving� people, the (positive) duty “to protect from deprivation,� and the (positive) duty “to aid the deprived.� [...] the enjoyment of any right requires not simply negative duties not to harm people but also positive duties too [...]

An individual's duty and right, but not a company's duty and right. We ask individuals to AID while companies CREATE the deprivation!"
May 15, 2024 –
page 274
40.18% "Science can gather empirical information, measure and explain processes of environmental change [...] But the empirical data it delivers [do not] trigger any form of social action [...] [E]nvironmental problems are perceived [as] violations of social norms [and] are beyond the realm of the natural sciences and technological solutions."

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