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Foreword |
v |
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Preface |
vii |
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List of Illustrations |
xiii |
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Part 1 Introduction: The Rise of U.S. Environmentalism |
1 |
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Industrialism and Its Discontents |
4 |
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Romanticism |
5 |
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Conservation vs. Environmentalism |
9 |
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Criticizing Consumption |
11 |
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Declarations of Interdependence |
13 |
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What It Means to Be Green |
18 |
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All Environmentalism Is Local |
21 |
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Conclusion: Pitfalls and Possibilities |
23 |
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Part 2 The Documents |
27 |
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1 Wilderness Romanticism |
29 |
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1 Clearing Winter Storm, 1944 |
29 |
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2 The Everglades, 1947 |
31 |
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3 The Defense of Dinosaur, 1954 |
36 |
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4 Wilderness Letter, 1960 |
41 |
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5 The Place No One Knew, 1963 |
46 |
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6 Desert Solitaire, 1968 |
49 |
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2 The End of Abundance |
54 |
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7 The Tragedy of the Commons, 1968 |
54 |
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8 The Population Bomb, 1968 |
58 |
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9 Limits to Growth, 1972 |
62 |
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10 Outgrowing the Earth, 2004 |
67 |
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3 Ecology and Society |
72 |
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11 Thinking like a Mountain, 1949 |
72 |
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12 Silent Spring, 1962 |
76 |
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13 The Closing Circle, 1971 |
83 |
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14 The Endangered Species Act, 1973 |
87 |
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15 On Cultivating Ecological Consciousness, 1985 |
89 |
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16 Summary for Policymakers, 2001 |
92 |
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17 To the Ends of the Earth, 2002 |
97 |
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4 Green Politics |
104 |
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18 How to Save the Earth, 1970 |
104 |
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19 Earth Day, 1970 |
108 |
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20 Ecotopia, 1975 |
111 |
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21 Soft Energy, 1977 |
114 |
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22 Ecodefense, 1985 |
117 |
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23 The End of Nature, 1989 |
122 |
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5 Acting Locally |
127 |
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24 Remarks before the General Session, 1965 |
127 |
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25 The Rape of the Land, 1966 |
129 |
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26 Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights, 1970 |
134 |
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27 The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture, 1977 |
136 |
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28 Knocking on Doors at Love Canal, 1983 |
140 |
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29 What Is the Worth of a Man or a Woman? 1989 |
145 |
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30 The Quest for Environmental Justice, 1993 |
149 |
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Appendixes |
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A Chronology of Key Events in U.S. Environmentalism since 1945 |
156 |
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Questions for Consideration |
160 |
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Selected Bibliography |
162 |
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Index |
167 |