Offers a theoretical framework for how liberalism can meaningfully respond to our environmental crisis by respecting and accommodating diverse ways of relating to the natural world.
The major innovation of liberalism, now the world's dominant form of political regime, was this: cooperation amid difference. Foundational to liberal systems is toleration of diversity, which safeguards citizens' freedoms to pursue disparate views of the good life. Manuel Rodeiro is the first philosopher to think through what this commitment to toleration means for the environment. Liberalism's Environmental Promise puts forward terms of social cooperation between parties with differences in how they value and relate to the natural world. This changes the tack of environmental political theory. Rather than claiming the state should become green, Rodeiro urges it to remain neutral. He exposes state-authorized industrial expansion as unfairly elevating a single way of life over all others. What would it look like if the government were to cease promoting and favoring economic growth? How can states reckon with histories of environmental destruction that oppressively quashed so many cultures in the name of progress? Rodeiro offers an optimistic, yet practical, vision of how ecologically sustainable lifestyles might finally be allowed equal opportunity to flourish.
| ISBN: | 9798855807332 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2026 |
| Author: | Manuel Rodeiro |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy Right-of-centre democratic ideologies Conservation of the environment |
Offers a theoretical framework for how liberalism can meaningfully respond to our environmental crisis by respecting and accommodating diverse ways of relating to the natural world.
The major innovation of liberalism, now the world's dominant form of political regime, was this: cooperation amid difference. Foundational to liberal systems is toleration of diversity, which safeguards citizens' freedoms to pursue disparate views of the good life. Manuel Rodeiro is the first philosopher to think through what this commitment to toleration means for the environment. Liberalism's Environmental Promise puts forward terms of social cooperation between parties with differences in how they value and relate to the natural world. This changes the tack of environmental political theory. Rather than claiming the state should become green, Rodeiro urges it to remain neutral. He exposes state-authorized industrial expansion as unfairly elevating a single way of life over all others. What would it look like if the government were to cease promoting and favoring economic growth? How can states reckon with histories of environmental destruction that oppressively quashed so many cultures in the name of progress? Rodeiro offers an optimistic, yet practical, vision of how ecologically sustainable lifestyles might finally be allowed equal opportunity to flourish.
Liberalism's Environmental Promise features in the following genres: Ethics and moral philosophy, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Conservation of the environment
Liberalism's Environmental Promise is available in Hardback
Liberalism's Environmental Promise was written by Manuel Rodeiro and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Liberalism's Environmental Promise has 216 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics series
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