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Record W1985819007 · doi:10.1177/0308275x03023002002

Scarcity and the Emergence of Fundamentalist Ecology

2003· article· en· W1985819007 on OpenAlexaff
Jeffrey Shantz

Bibliographic record

VenueCritique of Anthropology · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWater Governance and Infrastructure
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScarcityEcologyEnvironmentalismSociologyMateriality (auditing)Deep ecologyPolitical ecologyEnvironmental ethicsPoliticsEconomicsPolitical scienceBiologyLaw

Abstract

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This article discusses the emergence of fundamentalist environmentalism in the mid-1980s. Fundamentalist versions of ecology, exemplified most notably by the theory of `deep ecology' and the social movement Earth First!, have mistakenly proposed social scarcity as a means to overcome natural scarcity. This confusion has led fundamentalist ecologists away from an analysis of the power relations which underlie social inequality and the destruction of nature. Instead, fundamentalist ecologists offer neo-Malthusian and anti-worker perspectives that shift responsibility for ecological crises away from capitalist structures of inequality and towards personal consumption practices. Failure to understand the materiality of ecological destruction and its connection to social relations has made it difficult for radical ecology to build alliances with other social movements.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.484
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.009
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.316 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations10
Published2003
Admission routes1
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