Environmental Maturity (Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought & Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science ) (Book Review‪)‬

[Review Essay: Peter Hay, Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), x + 400 pp.; and Robert Kirkman, Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), x + 211 pp.] Peter Hay's Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought and Roberr Kirkman's Skeptical Environmentalism call for environmental thought to mature. Both do so indirectly through topics they raise. At the same time, both books are flawed pieces of philosophy or history of ideas. Yet criticizing the books is secondary to addressing their call for maturity, and so this article will be primarily about environmental maturity and only secondarily about flaws.