{"product_id":"re-engineering-environmentalism-for-limited-beings-liberalism-naturalism-and-environmentalism-in-the","title":"Re-Engineering Environmentalism for Limited Beings: Liberalism, Naturalism and Environmentalism in the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRe-Engineering Environmentalism for Limited Beings \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubtitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Liberalism, Naturalism and Environmentalism in the Anthropocene\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubject Classification: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eClimate Change, Sustainability, Philosophy\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBIC Classification: \u003c\/strong\u003eRB, RN \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBISAC Classification: \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSCI092000, POL044000, SCI101000\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Hardback, Paperback, eBook\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 04 Jul 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (Hardback):\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-80441-318-0 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (eBook):\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-80441-319-7 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (Paperback): \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-80441-490-3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo view a sample of the book, please click \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:\" underline data-mce-style=\"text-decoration:\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ee-books available for libraries from \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProquest\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEBSCO\u003c\/strong\u003e\n \n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith non-institutional availability from \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\nGooglePlay\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor larger orders, or orders where you require an invoice, contact us  \u003cspan id=\"cloak8074a48c555b85c31ec4347354a45e96\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\nadmin@ethicspress.com\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWhy are we failing to make meaningful progress on mitigating and adapting to climate change? A standard reply - all too easy for academics to endorse - is that we understand the problem theoretically, but practical political problems are hard to solve for all the usual practical, political reasons. This book challenges this narrative. Tensions in the philosophical assumptions of climate change activism must be resolved before practical policy choices can be coherently implemented. The book draws attention to basic trade-offs between three broad ideological commitments, all of which seem indispensable, but which don’t ‘play well’ together as a trio: liberalism, environmentalism, and philosophical naturalism. It is argued that a reconciliation of these ideological commitments will require greater humility, and some toothy concessions, on the part of liberals, environmentalists, and even naturalists of an activist bent. What we need is politically defensible, ecologically sustainable policy that does not implicitly rely on supernatural (or superhuman) interventions, as current policy options do. Successful environmental policy must acknowledge not only planetary limits, but also the natural limits of human agency in a liberal world. There is a wealth of natural scientific analysis of climate change and ecology, as well as a vast literature of the economics, sociology, and political science of environmental governance. Yet there is a surprising gap in the literature: a lack of systematic efforts to examine the intersection of philosophy of science, including the human sciences, ethics, and environmental governance in the Anthropocene. This book seeks to address that gap.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiography\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor(s):\u003c\/span\u003e \n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMorgan Tait is Adjunct Professor, School of Environment and Resource Studies and Special Lecturer, Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at King’s University College, University of Western Ontario.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"With clarity, rigor, and careful concern for the stakes of the issues, Tait explores the uneasy fit between three philosophical positions that he expressly endorses: liberalism, naturalism, and environmentalism, showing how together they lead to a contemporary problem of inconsistent triads. His diagnosis is acute and clever, using an analogy that aligns each of three brothers from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov with a respective pairing from the triad. Ivan is a committed naturalist and environmentalist. Because he is skeptical of human agency as capable of adequate response to environmental problems, he is willing to enact non-liberal methods of coercion and control. Alyosha by contrast believes fervently in human agential freedom and goodness. Wanting to protect the environment, he nevertheless fails to appreciate the natural limits of moral argumentation in changing behavior and thus fails to be effective. Finally, Dimitri is a liberal naturalist who balances human freedom against limits of rational argumentation but sees no natural or moral necessity for protecting the environment. Instead, he dismisses environmental constraints altogether, naively believing that natural forces and mechanisms will continue to evolve and self-correct. For Tait, each brother has an insight and a fatal flaw. 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