La ecología de la libertad

"The very notion of the domination of nature by man derives from the very real domination of the human by the human." With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin, an active voice in the ecological and anarchist movements for over forty years, presents his most ambitious work. His inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory reveals the contradiction between imposition and freedom in human culture, both between human beings and towards nature, constantly pointing the way to an ecological and sustainable future, where not everything is an exploitable resource. Bearing in mind that cooperation, symbiosis and emergent behavior prevail in nature -processes he calls food networks and circles of interdependence-, he proposes sustainable development, appropriate technology and especially social ecology as an alternative to contemporary capitalism. . Bookchin's historical narrative is simple: environmental, economic and political devastation is born at the moment when human societies begin to organize themselves hierarchically. And the lesson to be learned is just as basic: the nightmare will continue until hierarchy dissolves and human beings develop more sustainable and egalitarian social structures.