Alan Roberts

ecologist, scientist, revolutionary democrat, socialist

The Self-Managing Environment

This is a book about environmental crises, and the conclusions to which they point. It seems a good idea to emphasise, at the very outset, that it is not a treatise on Doomsday and how it must overshadow all our other petty concerns.

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This is a book about environmental crises, and the conclusions to which they point. It seems a good idea to emphasise, at the very outset, that it is not a treatise on Doomsday and how it must overshadow all our other petty concerns.

A revolution in values too

Alan Roberts was among the first to see the necessity of injecting ecological thinking into socialism. Janna Thompson discusses the strengths – and weaknesses – of The Self-managing Environment as a response to this challenge.

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Alan Roberts was among the first to see the necessity of injecting ecological thinking into socialism. Janna Thompson discusses the strengths – and weaknesses – of The Self-managing Environment as a response to this challenge.