Hello:
The current issue of The Rhizone (Vol.15 No.2, May/2006), the
newsletter of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC),
has just come out and it can now be accessed temporarily at:
http://csopconsulting.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/rhizome15-2.pdf
This issue has a review of the important new book by Patrick Curry,
_Ecological Ethics: An Introduction_, by Green Party member Ted
Mosquin. Ted "highly recommends" this book and I concur with him on
this. There are also two wonderful tributes to the late Canadian
eco-philosopher and naturalist John Livingston by Leesa Fawcett and
Connie Russell. I really urge you all to read the tributes to
Livingston, who has been at the forefront of deeper green thinking in
Canada and who has influenced so many of us through these two books,
_The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation_ (1981) and _Rogue Primate_
(1994). Lessa Fawcett notes about Livingston, a mentor to David
Suzuki, that "He detested the inherent contradictions of 'sustainable
development' and loudly proclaimed his disgust with the term right at
the peak of its popularity." I find it hard to get my mind around
that some people in the federal Green Party, including leadership
candidates, still cling to and defend the concept of sustainable development.
This issue of Rhizone also contains a shortened version of my review
of the ten volume recent printing of _The Selected Works_ by Arne Naess.
Best and for the Earth,
David Orton
"The earth does not belong to humans." - Arne Naess
"We must live at a level that we seriously can wish others to attain,
not at a level that requires the bulk of humanity NOT to reach." - Naess
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