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Humanity at the crossroads: The globalization of environmental crisis

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Barry Gills, Dr Kornelis Oosthoek

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Abstract

This is the introduction to the special issue of Globalizations entitled 'The Globalization of Environmental Crisis' edited by Jan Oosthoek and Barry K. Gills. The essay discusses the history of the globalization of environmental crises and responses to them in recent decades and the cumulative and presently acute nature of the condition of global environmental crisis. It contains a critique of science and the primacy of the economy in our contemporary knowledge and material systems. It argues that the holism of the global crisis makes all humanity both affected by and responsible for its actions and makes an urgent call for dramatic and radical change to avert future global tragedy for humanity. This requires a fundamental paradigm shift and the profound re-defining of the idea of progress in human history and development.

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Author(s): Gills BK, Oosthoek KJW

Publication type: Editorial

Publication status: Published

Journal: Globalizations

Year: 2005

Volume: 2

Issue: 3

Pages: 283-291

ISSN (print): 1474-7731

ISSN (electronic): 1474-774X

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747730500409454

DOI: 10.1080/14747730500409454

Notes: Being re-published as a book, Environmental Crisis and Globalization, co-edited by Jan Oosthoek and Barry K. Gills, Routledge, 2006/7, in the series Rethinking Globalizations.

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