Concern about the environment and what we are doing to it has put important questions on both moral political agendas. One such question that is often asked in the West is whether or not we face a terminal environmental catastrophe in the foreseeable future? Less dramatic but equally serious threats to the sustaining powers and attractiveness of the world in which we live are also important considerations. Environmental and Philosophy provides a concise introduction to the radical challenges that environmental poses to concepts which have become almost second nature in the modern world, including: (a) the ideas of science and objectivity; (b) the conventional placement of the human being 'within' the environment; (c) the individualism of conventional 'Modern' thought.