Anarchism and Ecology

The rise of capitalism has involved the spread of greed and consumerism bought on by our loss of responsibility for, or connection with, the Earth. Graham Purchase attributes this rift to the gradual dissolution of humanity's relationship to bioregions. In Anarchism and Ecology, Purchase outlines the history of our slow alienation from the local. He moves from a critique of Nation-State borders to an understanding of the importance of natural boundaries, calling for the re-emergence of an integrated, living and sustainable relationship with the ecological regions that surround us.

Stressing redistribution, not retribalization, Anarchism and Ecology describes strategies for change that take into account the entrenched complexities of our urban-industrial world. Graham Purchase outlines a working plan that calls for the democratic decentralization of governing bodies linked to bioregions and the eventual establishment of a global federation of ecological regions. Recognizing the potential of technologies to provide new, appropriately-scaled solutions, his proposal argues for agricultural production suited to local climates, waste-fuel development, diverse clean energy sources, and community-based industrial manufacturing projects.

It is visions such as these that bring our minds and spirits to the hopeful task of finding viable alternatives to our current planetary ecological crisis.

Graham Purchase teaches metaphysics and epistemology in the department of traditional and modern philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His current research is on eighteen-century Indian affairs.

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