Modernity’s exclusion of nature from justice created its sustainability crisis

Evidence

Lash and Featherstone (2001: 14) argue that recognition is the source of modernity’s social bond. They are interested in what happens as that bond breaks down, under pressure from the homogenizing forces of globalization and the reality of difference. The concern here is that modernity’s recognition never went far enough; while it may have constructed a limited social bond, it never constructed a bond with the natural world that would have enabled a more constructive and sustainable relationship to develop. Instead, the lack of recognition of nature, the exclusion of nature from theories of justice, and the dismissal of parity for nature have led modernity to a crisis of sustainability. Modernity’s social bond is unsustainable without a simultaneous recognition of, and bond with, the rest of the natural world. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 473

Categorization

• XREF: Frames sustainability as a recognition failure rather than a resource-distribution failure — usable against the ch96 ecological-space taxation readings. — connects to: Environmental crisis cannot be resolved without social justice. — David A. Gruenewald, The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical…, 57; Environmental crisis roots are epistemological, ethical, and political, a crisis of ideas — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 654; Modernity preserved the opposition to nature while discarding the afterlife — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 387 (+6 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Ecological crisis is systemic to modernity, not contingent #corroborates (0.85)
• Modernity’s core crisis is epistemological, not merely material or environmental #expands (0.80)
• Late capitalism has eclipsed Nature as society’s radical other #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 124
• Utopian use of nature for community need contrasted with capitalist profit-driven exploitation #exemplifies (0.72) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 403