World Affairs
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 3

Western liberal democracy: Rethinking towards sustainable development

  • Author:
  • Narottam Gaan
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • Page Number: 14 to 29

Abstract

Western liberal democracy, inspired by Newtonian science, encourages a profligate lifestyle and massive consumerism, resulting in a global environmental crisis that is threatening mankind with extinction. To ensure the welfare of future generations a reform of the system based on an ecologically holistic worldview is necessary.