Ecology and Class 1
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Ecology and
Class
- where there’s brass,
there’s muck
2 Ecology and Class
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Introduction—Ecological crisis
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Part One: The Ecological Crisis We Face
Water
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People
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Biotechnology and the future of mankind
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Technology
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Carmaggedon
22 Whose land is it anyway?
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The role of progress
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Part Two: Responses to Eco-catastrophe
Survivalism
Rio and the New World Order
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The environmental movement
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Primitivism
Change yourself, change the world
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The anti-roads movement
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Legislate or die?
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Development: a class response
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Part Three: A Truly Green Revolution
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Contents
Ecology and Class 3
ECOLOGY AND CLASS
Introduction - Ecological Crisis
Many people are aware of the worldwide problem of environmental pollution and destruction. Rainforests such as Amazonia are
being decimated, large areas of land turned into desert. Droughts, floods and earthquakes affect millions; large-scale pollution is
causing dangerous climatic change. Ecology (the science of living things and how they interact with each other), is therefore vital,
literally a matter of life and death.
In Africa and Asia, deforestation and desertification reinforce the effects of grossly unfair land ownership, producing starvation and
malnutrition for millions of people. In Europe and North America, cancers from the environmental degradation caused by mass
industrial society affect tens of thousands; the death and injury toll from cars is huge and the resulting air pollution causes a wors-
ening asthma problem. Drinking water is becoming more polluted due to pesticides from farming, pollution from industry and, in
Britain, water suppliers may soon be compelled to add the harmful chemical fluoride to water because of its supposed benefits to
children’s teeth. Food is generally laden with chemicals (add