ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers pro pose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the nature they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological vie w, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all. Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damag ed, Morto...[Read more]