Falk, Richard --- "Revisiting the Earth Charter 20 years later: a response to Ron Engel" [2019] ELECD 2191; in Burdon, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Engel, Kirsten (eds), "The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 246

Book Title: The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance

Editor(s): Burdon, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Engel, Kirsten

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 17

Section Title: Revisiting the Earth Charter 20 years later: a response to Ron Engel

Author(s): Falk, Richard

Number of pages: 6

Abstract/Description:

This chapter evaluates and engages Engel’s critical engagement with the Earth Charter. In addressing this work, it also considers whether - amid the complexities and contradictions of modern-day capitalism - we might identify the agents of change or social forces capable of furthering ecological ethics into the future. Without differing from Engel except in choice of words, it considers how to achieve political traction for a transformative political movement that agrees with him that the most formidable obstacles on the path towards planetary peace and justice are ideologies and practices associated with neoliberal capitalism and its strong linkages of mutual dependence with militarized governmental bureaucracies.