1. Toward a Rationale for Negotiating a Deeper Green ESD Agenda: Brokering collaboration between developing and overdeveloped worlds.
- Author
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Langager, Mark
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GREEN movement , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *ECOLOGY , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *CONSUMPTION (Economics) , *SOCIAL justice , *INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
In this paper, both the empirical insufficiency and political necessity of ESD are presented, taking a deep-green approach to understanding the severity of ecological crises, specifically addressing a convergence of environmental urgencies currently facing humanity. Simultaneously, rigorous revision is recommended to remedy ESD inadequacies. ESD's rhetorical inferiority to Environmental Education is addressed, noting social issues that have attached themselves as riders on the ESD agenda. Yet, despite the green-washed incoherencies of ESD, adoption is recommended on pragmatic grounds, because the sustainability we all hope for depends on global cooperation, which duly substantiates the need for global social justice issues on the agenda. Finally, rigorous revision of ESD is recommended to incorporate strong calls for both the decreasing of consumption and the humane reduction of the global human population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011