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28 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifra.3622
- isbn: 9789782015457
- eisbn: 9791092312669
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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pollution environmental ethics environmental crises environmental management environmental crisis environmental ethics environmental management pollution Philosophy Environmental Studies PHI005000 SOC008000 HPQ JFSLSujets proches
Modernity Modern civilizationCiter ce document
Kolawole A. Owolabi, « Modernity and Environmental Degradation in Africa: Evidence from Rural and Urban Nigeria », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.3622
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How has the anthropocentric tendency of modern culture eroded the sense of moral responsibility of the African people toward the natural environment? By modernity, we mean the socio-cultural setting that emerged as a result of the scientific achievements and the humanistic turn that the intellectual world witnessed during the modem epoch. Modernity as a culture is, therefore, the product of various intellectual positions and has developed certain socio-cultural characteristics which are inter...