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18 Critical Soc. Pol'y 5 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/critsplcy18 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLES O TONY FITZPATRICK University of Luton The implications of ecological thought for social welfare Abstract Relatively little attention has been given by the discipline of social policy to ecological critiques. Yet if those critiques are even marginally accu- rate, in terms of the explanations which they offer and the assessments which they make, then this is a neglect which cannot continue indefi- nitely. The aim of this article is to help rectify such neglect. The article begins by reviewing the principal approaches which ecological thought takes to social welfare, noting various similarities and dissimilarities to other ideologies. It then contrasts a productivist with a non-productivist, or ecological, model which the author believes could assist in the redesign, and Greening, of social welfare. Introduction Social justice and ecological sustainability do not necessarily go together. The objective of redistributing wealth and opportunities is not, in itself, concerned with how such goods are generated in the first place, despite the fact that any future success in reducing poverty will be short-lived if anti-poverty strategies are based upon dwindling resources. Equally, it is possible to imagine futures where the price paid for sustainability is a profound social injustice, though few at present regard this as either desirable or inevitable. Many have therefore recognized the need to evolve approaches to social justice which are compatible with ecological sustainability, and vice versa. For at least a decade now, such a convergence of critiques and prescriptions has been taking place (Pepper, 1993), but Copyright @1998 Critical Social Policy 54 0261-0183(199802)18:1 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), Vol. 18(1): 5-26; 002475. 5

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