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Ecology and Politics: Political Awareness Development in the USSR (1989)
Pages 65-68

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From page 65...
... Vernadsly wrote in the early Every event in an out-of-the-way place of any continent or ocean is reflected and has its consequence~large or small in some other places or everywhere on the earth's surface ....For the first time the human realizes that he is the resident of the planet and that he may and he must think and act in new directions, not only on behalf of his personality, his family, community, state, or its alliances, but on behalf of the whole planet. We do not propose to evaluate political and social processes by biological categories and methods but we are persuaded that ecological thinking, as a method of scientific knowledge, can be of great value to both political and social science.
From page 66...
... The adverse ecological consequences of this construction sparked the public "Baikal movement," which has had- a special impact on environmental mobilization. The other bad ecological event of that time was the construction of a series of huge hydroelectric stations on the Volga River.
From page 67...
... Broad discussions concerning environmental problems in the atmosphere of glasnost were connected with such key elements of perestroika as economic reform, democratization, and legal reform. Even during the very short period from the 27th Communist Party Congress (February 1986)
From page 68...
... In the economic field it depends on the progress of economic reform, on structural changes in the economy, on limiting departmental power, and so on. In the legal field it depends on the progress of legal reform, democratization, improving environmental legislation, and personal responsibility for environmentally acceptable conduct.


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