A New Ecological Ethos

As the Cold War winds down and the atmosphere heats up, the environment is rising to the top of the global agenda. The number of refrigerators, not missiles, are what count now; the most urgent mission of the U2 spyplane is no longer detecting ICBMs on the ground in Russia, but ozonedepleting CFCs a...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Main Author: Gardels, Nathan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 1989
Subjects:
General Engineering
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Arctic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027046768900900601
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/027046768900900601
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Summary:As the Cold War winds down and the atmosphere heats up, the environment is rising to the top of the global agenda. The number of refrigerators, not missiles, are what count now; the most urgent mission of the U2 spyplane is no longer detecting ICBMs on the ground in Russia, but ozonedepleting CFCs above the Arctic. Already, terms like “industrial disarmament” and “ecological security” are seeping into the mainstream political discourse.

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