Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations
PART ONE
Introduction: The Rise of U.S. Environmentalism
Industrialism and Its Discontents
Romanticism
Conservation vs. Environmentalism
Criticizing Consumption
What It Means to Be Green
All Environmentalism Is Local
Conclusion: Pitfalls and Possibilities
PART TWO
The Documents
1. Wilderness Romanticism
1. Ansel Adams,
Clearing Winter Storm, 1944
2. Marjory Stoneman Douglas,
The Everglades, 1947
3. The Sierra Club,
The Defense of Dinosaur, 1954
4. Wallace Stegner,
Wilderness Letter, 1960
5. David Brower,
The Place No One Knew, 1963
6. Edward Abbey,
Desert Solitaire, 1968
2. The End of Abundance
7. Garrett Hardin,
The Tragedy of the Commons, 1968
8. Paul Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb, 1968
9. Donella Meadows and Dennis Meadows,
Limits to Growth, 1972
10. Lester Brown,
Outgrowing the Earth, 2004
3. Ecology and Society
11. Aldo Leopold,
Thinking like a Mountain, 1949
12. Rachel Carson,
Silent Spring, 1962
13. Barry Commoner,
The Closing Circle, 1971
14.
The Endangered Species Act, 1973
15. Bill Devall and George Sessions,
On Cultivating Ecological Consciousness, 1985
16. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Summary for Policymakers, 2001
17. Edward O. Wilson,
To the Ends of the Earth, 2002
4. Green Politics
18.
How to Save the Earth, 1970
19. Denis Hayes,
Earth Day, 1970
20. Ernest Callenbach,
Ecotopia, 1975
21. Amory Lovins,
Soft Energy, 1977
22. Dave Foreman,
Ecodefense, 1985
23. Bill McKibben,
The End of Nature, 1989
5. Acting Locally
24. Lady Bird Johnson,
Remarks before the General Session, 1965
25. Ben H. Bagdikian,
The Rape of the Land, 1966
26.
Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights, 1970
27. Wendell Berry,
The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture, 1977
28. Lois Gibbs,
Knocking on Doors at Love Canal, 1983
29. César Chávez,
What Is the Worth of a Man or a Woman? 1989
30. Vernice D. Miller,
The Quest for Environmental Justice, 1993
Appendixes
A Chronology of Key Events in U.S. Environmentalism since 1945
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index