Politics of ecology
Sir,-If the world is to make the transition from ecodoom to ecotopia it must listen to the politics of ecology - the subtitle of Jonathon Porritt’s book “Seeing Green” ("The Press,” May 24). The politics of ecology challenges the concept of dominion over nature and of the arrogance which drives the European to lay waste the world. The “heathen” Red Indian was wiser: “This we know. The Earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to the Earth.” But there are questions. How viable is unilateral adoption by New Zealand of the “Green” alternative in a world dedicated to exploitation? How to handle the relationship between social injustice and the plunder of nature? How to reconcile concern for world problems with emphasis on local issues? Porritt describes our forests as representing the “genetic quality” of New Zealand. If we will not preserve this, we have betrayed the world. — Yours, etc ERIC BENNETT. Wellington, May 26, 1985.
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Press, 29 May 1985, Page 18
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