U.S. Environmentalism Since 1945: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Book

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