Description: "Why our most cherished political ideas are based on a certain conception of our relation to the environment - and one that can no longer be sustained"--
Review Quotes: "Because he speaks the language of political philosophy and not that of environmentalism, Charbonnier manages, paradoxically, to bring questions of the material conditions of existence much closer to what those who pursue the modern ideals of freedom and prosperity need in order to realize them. He might succeed in rendering political ecology mainstream."
Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris
"Impressive and forensic"
Times Higher Education
"An unlikely environmental history of Enlightenment political and economic thought."
London Review of Books