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Domination of Nature
ISBN: 9780773564794
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Man -- Infulence on nature; Science and civilization; Technology and civilization; Philosophy of nature; Human ecology;

The last three decades have seen increasing concern over ecology and environmental problems. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public have been aroused by the recognition that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the delicate balance of organic life in the global ecosystem may result in devastating problems for future generations. William Leiss argues that this global predicament must be understood in terms of deeply rooted attitudes towards nature. He traces the origins, development, and social consequences of an idea whose imprint is everywhere in modern thought: the idea of the domination of nature.

William Leiss is professor emeritus in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and author of several books on climate issues, most recently Canada and Climate Change.