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Monday, June 30, 2014
Jesse Ausubel Awarded 2014 Breakthrough Paradigm Award Winner
Modern humans are destroying the planet. Once, there was a time in which people lived in harmony with nature, but those days are long gone. In order to save the Earth, we must roll back the clock and live like pre-industrial civilizations lived. Or so goes the classic environmental narrative, which blames industrialization, modernity, and human development for what ails Mother Nature.
But as environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel argues in his landmark paper, “The Liberation of the Environment,” human beings have been committing sins against the environment for thousands of years. And contrary to conventional wisdom, modernity, development, and technology are not drivers of human-led destruction of the environment. Rather, Ausubel contends, human development is the liberator of the environment.
http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/dialogue/paradigm-award-winners/jesse-ausubel-announced-as-2014-breakthrough-paradigm-award-winner
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