New seminal environmental works. Nine review articles. - WZB
New seminal environmental works. Nine review articles. - WZB
New seminal environmental works. Nine review articles. - WZB
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18 <strong>New</strong> Seminal Environmental Works<br />
any effective global regulation of the relations between man and the envi-<br />
ronment, and politics and its institutions are limited in their ability to deal<br />
effectively with the complexity and variability of <strong>environmental</strong> problems,<br />
mankind will, as always in its history, continue in essence to be reliant on<br />
nature's self-healing powers" (p. 339). First of all, the author is contradict-<br />
ing himself here, as he has cited numerous examples to prove that it has<br />
indeed been possible to successfully regulate the relations between man<br />
and his environment - now and then. And on the other hand, one could<br />
have looked more carefully into those self-healing powers of nature. Nature<br />
itself may indeed possess constructive power as a living being, this at least<br />
is the proposition of the Gaia hypothesis. But Joachim Radkau, the author<br />
of "Nature and Power," fails, in spite of the occasional quote, to take a sub-<br />
stantive note of the author on the natural power of nature, James Lovelock.<br />
Reason enough for another book – perhaps in English?<br />
Appeared in: Environmental Values, Vol. 10, No. 2; a German version ap-<br />
peared in: Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik und Umweltrecht, Vol. 23, No. 2.
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