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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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