Nuclear Power in the Twenty-first Century

Author(s):  
Geoffrey P. Hammond
Author(s):  
Frédéric Neyrat

In chapter 6, Neyrat moves to describing the new ecologists and environmentalists of the twenty-first century: the ecomodernists. Neyrat provides the origins of this new capitalist and industrialist friendly environmentalism that promised to take into account all environmental concerns within its mode of development and growth. In taking on a seemingly pragmatist position outside of ideological frameworks and offering a positive vision of our environmental future whereby technologies such as nuclear power, GMOs, and fracking, as well as rejecting the division between nature and technology, ecomodernists completely reject the environmentalism and ecology of their twentieth-century forebears. Neyrat provides an introduction to these ecomodernists who have a very different conception of the current era, where striving to comprehend some ideal or old environmental state of nature was always already impossible due to the inherent perpetual instability of the turbulence of ecosystems.


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