Criticism
Gray’s Straw Dogs has been criticised by Terry Eagleton. Danny Postel also took issue with Straw Dogs. Postel stated Gray's claim that environmental destruction was the result of humanity's flawed nature, would be "welcome news to the captains of industry and the architects of the global economy; the ecological devastation they leave in their wake, according to Gray, has nothing to do with their exploits." Postel also claimed that too much of Straw Dogs rested on "blanket assertion", and criticised Gray's use of the term "plague of people" as an outdated " neo-Malthusian persiflage about overpopulation". Postel strongly condemned Gray for outlining "complete political passivity. There is no point whatsoever in our attempting to make the world a less cruel or more livable place."
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