WAR ECOLOGY. AN ENVIROMENTAL HISTORY OF PEACE

For nature and the climate, the only thing more dangerous than war is peace - this is the startling claim made by the French philosopher Pierre Charbonnier in his new book War Ecology. Charbonnier shows that we are the heirs of an intellectual and political history which maintained that creating the conditions for peace between human beings requires exploiting nature, exchanging resources and providing sufficient prosperity for all. This idea, which can be traced back to the eighteenth century, found striking expression in the mid-twe...[Read more]