Three centuries of struggles for the environment against "progress"

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"A history of struggles for the environment 18th - 20th: three centuries of debates and fights", by Anne-Claude Ambroise-Rendu, Steve Hagimont, Charles-François Mathis and Alexis Vrignon, published by Textuel.

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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

49 mins

Political ecology was not born in the 70s. Since the XVIIIth century, the popular classes, part of the intellectual elites of Europe, America, Japan and the colonized peoples of Africa and America fight against the exploitation of natural resources.

The protectors of nature mobilized against the States and the companies destroying the living world from the beginnings of the industrial revolution.

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A history of struggles for the environment 18th - 20th: three centuries of debates and fights

, by Anne-Claude Ambroise-Rendu, Steve Hagimont, Charles-François Mathis and Alexis Vrignon, published by Textuel.

Guests: Historians Anne-Claude Ambroise-Rendu and Charles François Mathis.

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