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Making Wonderful: Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe

Making Wonderful: Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe
Author: Martin M. Tweedale
Price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 1772126594
ISBN-13: 9781772126594
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In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology arose in the West that, casting aside earlier philosophic and religious constraints, energized the West’s economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. The origins of this ideology go back to a highly attractive Zoroastrian myth in which at the end of history human life and the whole world are “made wonderful.” Having flowed through Jewish apocalyptic thought into early Christianity, this vision spawned the utopian thinking that eventually resulted in a distinctively Western idea of progress. When this was abetted by a virtually religious faith in the power of science and technology to improve life, it promoted the kind of economic expansion that now results in planet-wide environmental catastrophe. Making Wonderful is for all readers who find themselves wondering how humanity has come to be in today’s calamitous predicament.