ABSTRACT
Abraham Lincoln once remarked that anyone who enjoys eating sausages and using the law should avoid seeing how either is made. The same can be said about many of the scientific “laws” and principles underlying environmental policy and debates today. This book is about why we should treat these apparent environmental “laws” with concern, and instead seek a more accurate and politically aware approach to environmental explanation. The book's key purpose is to show how we need to see the evolution of environmental facts and knowledge as part of the political debate, rather than as a pre-prepared basis from which to start environmental debate.
