How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Scruton Roger

Author:Scruton, Roger [Scruton, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Getting Nowhere

Not all people who identify themselves as on the left are oiko-phobes. In America a kind of liberal patriotism has arisen, centred around journals like The New Republic, and writers like John Schaar, who, while claiming left-liberal credentials, writes thus in defence of patriotism:

At its core, patriotism means love of one’s homeplace, and of the familiar things and scenes associated with the home-place. In this sense, patriotism is one of the basic human sentiments. If not a natural tendency in the species, it is at least a proclivity produced by realities basic to human life, for territoriality, along with family, has always been a primary associative bond. We become devoted to the people, places and ways that nurture us, and what is familiar and nurturing seems also natural and right. This is the root of patriotism. Furthermore, we are all subject to the immense power of habit, and patriotism has habit in its service.286

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