The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs Environmental Religion in Contemporary America

摘要

Anyone familiar with the battles waged in land courts between developers and conservationists will immediately recognise the allusion to wars of religion in the title of this intriguing book. The vehemence which characterises such disputes stems from a clash of deeply held convictions about the world and the place of human beings in it - indeed, religious convictions. Readers will perhaps be surprised, however, to find the author describing modern economics and environmental science (or ecology) as religions. Yet this is one of the key arguments in the book and it is double-barrelled.