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Chronology
Who’s Who
Glossary
Maps
Contributions to global warming
Protected areas on land
Illustrations
J.M.W. Turner Slave Ship painting
Pet cemetery at Asnières
Autobahn
Earth from outer space
Greenpeace anti-whaling action
SUV ad
Saltwater aquarium
Painting of wind turbines
PART ONE ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT
1 Introduction
2 Domesticating the wild
Background
The birth of conservation
Nostalgia and nature loving
The birth of nature tourism
Pets
Environmentalism in the colonies and early U.S.
3 Industrial nature loving
The spread of conservation and preservation
Nature and nation
Wild nature
Domesticating the wild
4 The friendly wild of post-war affluence
Background
American suburbs
The friendly wild
Meaning and ecology
5 The counter-culture’s nature
Prosperity and alienation
Wild = good
Nature loving goes mainstream
Farley Mowat and the world we have lost
Mother nature’s sons: Jacques Cousteau and John Denver
6 Epiphanies
Silent Spring
Green surge
Western Europe
The rest of the West
Green nationalism
7 Radical departures
Background
Deep Ecology
Bioregionalism and ecofeminism
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace and Earth First!
8 Thwarted
Background
Western-European Greens
Central and Eastern Europe
Backlash and accomodation
Success stories
Divisions
9 Extreme nature loving
Wilderness and technology
Wild playgrounds
Consuming nature
Aquariums and dogs
Freeing Keiko and finding Nemo
10 Assessment
PART TWO DOCUMENTS
1 Beowulf
2 William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey
3 The Cruelty to Animals Act of 1835
4 George Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature
5 Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
6 William Morris, News from Nowhere
7 Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys
8 John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierras
9 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
10 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
11 Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
12 Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
13 Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
14 John Denver, Rocky Mountain High
15 Richard Adams, Watership Down
16 Donella H. Meadows, et al., The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind
17 Arne Naess, “The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movements”
18 Endangered Species Act of 1973
19 Where You At? A Bioregional Quiz
20 Earth First Action in Oregon, 1985
21 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992
22 Petra Kelly, “Creating an Ecological Economy”
23 Kyoto Protocol, 1997
24 Bjǿ[no accent]rn Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
25 Animal Wellness Magazine, “10 Steps to Animal Communication”
26 Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and what We Can Do About It
27 Rural Manifesto of the Countryside Alliance, 2009
28 Report of the League Against Cruel Sports, 2010
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Environmentalism, We live in a century already characterised by fears about global warming, rising pollution and the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. At the same time, there appears to be a greater interest in nature and conservation than ever before. In
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