The uncertain quest for sustainability: public discourse and the politics of environmentalism

Douglas Torgerson
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Douglas Torgerson: Trent University

Chapter 1 in Greening Environmental Policy, 1995, pp 3-20 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Upon entering the public scene, environmentalism disturbed the established discourse of advanced industrial society. While technically focused discourse could usually overwhelm concerns about the morality of dominating nature, doubt about the human ability to dominate nature was more worrisome. The future was dramatically thrown into question, and the doubt proved especially troubling when expressed through the scientistic idiom of technical discourse.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-08357-9_1

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