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Into the Anthropocene: Environmental history and the morality of climate change
2020
International Review of Environmental History
This article argues that the nature of landscape 'improvement' as understood in the colonial period reflected a strong sense of common purpose and collective good, and the desire to use this as the basis of modern prosperity and growth. But these are not sentiments that have been uncritically accepted for some decades as the modernist conception of the rural landscape and resource use has come under increasing attack. The central questions posed here are then: what has happened to this moral
doi:10.22459/ireh.06.02.2020.04
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