Every life is a story: the social relations of science, ecology and peace.Every Life is a Story: The Social Relations of Science, Ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. and Peace, Fred H. Knelman, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1998, 320 pages, $24.99 softcover soft·cov·er adj. Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. , ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-55164-136-4. Contrary to T. S. Eliot's concern, our world could end with either a bang or a whimper: nuclear war or environmental collapse. From the very beginning of the nuclear age in 1945 and the environmental age in the 1960s Fred Knelman has played a prominent part in the citizens' and scientists' organizations that sprang up in response to these issues. This book represents the culmination of a life-long involvement and commitment to peace and the environment. It is both a social and a personal history. The theme of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation and the nature of global change provide the context and environment of the book's analysis. Knelman first deals with the nature of science and the behaviour of scientists, using the decision to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 and its lasting legacy as a case study. He then turns to an analysis of nuclear power, military and civil, and the link between them. An examination of the history of environmental thought is then followed by a look at the phenomenon of global change and the challenge of global governance Global governance refers to political interaction and the creation and empowering of international organizations aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region, when there is no democratic power of enforcing compliance. . The last chapter describes a model of social sustainability. |
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