The Decline of Nature : Environmental History and the Western Worldview

¿The virtue of his book is threefold: it ingeniously connects the latest findings of environmental science to the broad stream of cultural history; exposes the flaws inherent in western attitudes about nature, especially the destructive, providential "idea of nature; and revives the much neglected field of speculative philosophy of history¿ From an appreciation by Professor Klaus Fischer,author of ¿Oswald Spengler and the Decline of the West¿ and ¿Nazi Germany: A New History¿Gilbert Lafreniere is the author of 'The Decline of Nature : Environmental History and the Western Worldview', published 2007 under ISBN 9781933146409 and ISBN 1933146400.