与一般的环保著作相比,丹尼尔·科尔曼的《生态政治:建设一个绿色社会》一书中并没有花大量的篇幅罗列触目惊心的生态环境问题的清单,以唤起人们的环保意识,也没有局限于一些善待生态环境的具体方法的泛泛之谈,而是试图从历史的角度分析造成环境问题的经济与政治制度之中的社会权力关系以及指导这社会权力关系的价值体系方面的深层根源。在作者看来,环境恶化问题之所以在工业时代愈演愈烈以至到了难以遏制的地步,在于资本主义所标榜的那一套惟利是图和物质至上的价值观。赢利铁律掩盖了对现实世界的重要关注,只要今天的供应源源不断,未来可能的 Compared with the general environmental books, Daniel Coleman’s “Ecological Politics: Building a Green Society” does not include a lot of space to list the alarming ecological problems in order to arouse people’s environmental awareness nor Is limited to some generalizations of specific ways to treat the ecological environment. It attempts to analyze, from a historical perspective, the deep roots of the social power relations in the economic and political systems that cause environmental problems and the value system that guides the power relations in this society. In the author’s opinion, the reason why the problem of environmental degradation has become more and more difficult to contain in the industrial age lies in the set of values ​​and materialism proclaimed by capitalism. The iron-clad law of profit masks important concerns about the real world. As long as there is a steady stream of supplies today and possible future