Solving History

The Challenge of Environmental Activism

By: Raymond Albert Rogers

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Rogers argues that multi-stakeholder, round table conservation agendas (although they recognize the increasing complexity of environmental problems) have failed to deal with these problems because they do not challenge the economic interests that benefit from the increasingly global level playing field. Because there is an aggressive agenda which promotes overexploitation, any conservation initiative which hopes to be successful has to begin by resisting these forces. Not only will it be necessary to "resolve issues," we may, in fact, have to "solve history" in order to deal with environmental problems. Drawing upon his analysis of the failures of conservation set out in Nature and the Crisis of Modernity and Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability Rogers presents an activist's response to environmental concerns.

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Preface
Conservation and the Darkening Hue of Development	p. 1
The Trouble with Capitalism: Environmental Concerns and the Privatization of Political Power	p. 27
The Call for a Moral Economy: The Usury Debate and the Sustainability Debate	p. 53
Are Environmentalists Hysterical or Paranoid?: Capitalism and "Environmental Security"	p. 81
Environmental Policy Making: Resolving Issues or Solving History?	p. 109
Prisoners of Their Histories: Canada/U.S. Conflicts In the Pacific Salmon Fishery	p. 131
Policies of Extinction: The Life and Death of Canada's Endangered Species Legislation (1996-97)	p. 149
Conclusion: Reclaiming the Social Realm: The Collapse of Canada's East Coast Fishery and the Politics of Hope	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 207
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