Fairer human rules cannot fix the ecological catastrophe inherent to industrialization.

Evidence

A second paradigm, Khor tells us, recognizes the first as somewhat anthropocentric in nature. That is, even if we could make the rules fairer for the human participants, the catastrophic ecological consequences and the overall quality of life on the planet would not be altered. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1352

Categorization

• XREF: Links Khor’s critique to the polyad thread on environmental justice and to the anthropocentrism claims established in earlier chapters (ch3, ch13). — connects to: Socialist states have been as ecologically destructive as capitalist ones — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 531; Enclosure extends beyond land to privatization of formerly shared services like water. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1367; Modern environmental assumptions may already have doomed the human species (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Defines paradigm two as eco-centric resistance.

Broader Connections

• Ecological crisis is systemic to modernity, not contingent #corroborates (0.95)
• Modern methods cannot solve problems caused by modernity itself #corroborates (0.92) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 481
• Modern environmental assumptions may already have doomed the human species #corroborates (0.85)
• Some human-caused environmental changes prove uncontrollable and irreversible #corroborates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2724