Only One Goal: Economic Growth. How Can Environmentalism Survive in the 21st Century? ()
Abstract
This paper is aimed to explore environmentalism in the 21st century: this broad philosophy has to overcome its limits in order to survive in a society where there seems to be only one goal, the economic growth. In the first part of the essay, I want to analyze the present condition as a result of a weak environmental consciousness. In the second part of the essay, I want to describe and compare two mainstreams of present environmentalism: de-growth theory and sustainable development.
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Capulli, G. (2015) Only One Goal: Economic Growth. How Can Environmentalism Survive in the 21st Century?.
Advances in Applied Sociology,
5, 179-182. doi:
10.4236/aasoci.2015.56017.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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