Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis (Transforming Environmental Politics and Policy)

Through a critical discussion of political ideologies, Political Ideologies and the Anthropocene Crisis seeks to extricate the values of contending traditions - freedom, equality, justice, community, tradition, welfare, family, happiness, sustainability, peace, regeneration of nature etc. - from assumptions of inevitable progress. The Anthropocene epoch is responsible for an impending crisis encompassing global warming, mass species extinctions, environmental degradation and, as a likely consequence, declining quality of life, social disruption and even societal collapse.Significantly responsible for liberal democracies' failure to act decisively in the face of these existential threats are the political ideologies that have dominated western modernity: liberalism/neoliberalism, Marxism, socialism/social democracy and, paradoxically, even conservatism.These ideologies must be freed from their faith in guaranteed progress and limitless economic expansion.At the same time, whilst green i