Brian Meadows

Communism and the Protection of the Environment: Ideology, Economics & Politics Brian Meadows

The global environmental problems that currently exist have been caused by democratic states. If the environmental impacts of democratic states had never occurred then the human perturbations of the environment would not be large enough to constitute a set of global environmental problems. If democratic states had never existed would we today face a number of global environmental problems? In this book the author considers the relationship between communism and the environment, both in theory and through the experiences of the former communist countries of Eastern Europe.