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| What does it take to make a society ecologically sustainable? Some may answer: recycling bins, waste water treatment, solar panels, hydrogen-powered cars. But beyond that, it may also require new ways of thinking about humans' relationship to their natural environment. Over the past few decades, a steadily growing number of writers have made the exploration of possible paths towards a sustainable society a primary concern of their work.
Where do we have to look for the roots of modern society's destructive effects on the natural environment? How does people's psychology need to change in order to reach ecological sustainability? What might be the benefits of adopting a "sustainable" lifestyle, besides a statistically significant reduction of cancer rates or the rise of the ocean level? And finally: What is the best way of convincing people to actually make the necessary changes? In this class, we will read both theoretical and literary works which deal with the problem of sustainabil
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