Conversely, our present ecological problems cannot be clearly understood, much less resolved, without resolutely dealing with problems within society. What defines social ecology as social is its recognition of the often-overlooked fact that nearly all our present ecological problems arise from deep-seated social problems. Our thanks to Michael Zimmerman for allowing us to republish the article with The Sociological Review under a Creative Commons license. It was originally published in Michael Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1993). This revised excerpt of Bookchin’s essay is reproduced from Climate & Capitalism.
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