Environmental values for a sustainable society: the democratic challenge

Robert Paehlke
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Robert Paehlke: Trent University

Chapter 8 in Greening Environmental Policy, 1995, pp 129-144 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The first Earth Day — 20 April 1970 — was a more seminal political event than was realized at the time. Since that time, environmental issues have gradually, though sometimes haltingly, become first-order political concerns. By the mid-1980s environmental protection was viewed by many as being as important to our collective well-being as national security, economic prosperity, social justice and — for some — even democracy itself. Some, at that time, would even have argued that if and when trade-offs between first-order values must be made, protecting the environment should be ‘first among equals’, a transcendent priority. The real challenge is to know what values must and should be traded off, when and to what extent.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-08357-9_8

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