Return To Nature
* Book: The Return of Nature. by John Bellamy Foster.
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Review
Peter Critchley:
"In a period when environmental problems are being addressed through institutional, technological, and financial fixes, John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is a timely reminder of the deeper, systemic, approach required for an effective response to what is at heart a socio-ecological crisis arising from within the specific forms mediating the human-nature interchange. In this comprehensive, insightful, and highly readable intellectual history, Foster presents a well-researched and richly detailed analysis of a range of thinkers who were the first to identify and systematically address the problems that beset us in the contemporary world. In recovering the intellectual roots of the eco-socialist response to environmental crisis, the book makes it clear that an increasingly pervasive crisis has systemic causes and demands a similarly systematic response."