The Light of Nature

We find ourselves in a moment of
unprecedented global confusion. Pockets of human concern for our environment
appear and disappear, many, perhaps most people though seem oblivious to the
potential ecological catastrophe we are facing. And yet it is the 21st
Century that must confront and resolve this universal crisis.



From the author of the critically
acclaimed The Enemy of Nature, comes
this all-inclusive Ecosocialist manifesto. Every phase of history has its own
mode of production, Kovel and Saul show that ours is based on the conversion of
everything to its money form, a mode that has turned nature into a mere
resource. Through impressive historical, political and philosophical
considerations The Light of Nature
calls for a reimagining of the intrinsic value of nature. Kovel and Saul's
Ecosocialism recognizes that all aspects of nature from a brain to a body, a
boulder to a bird, also have an intrinsic value, a value which cannot be used
or exchanged. An acknowledgement of this value not only holds the key to a
unified, global resistance to the genocidal and ecocidal forces of the 21st
Century, but to prefiguring a new mode of production and organization, a new
moment in history.