Losing Ground American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century

Name: Losing Ground American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780262540841

ISBN-10: 0262540843

ISBN-13: 9780262540841

Edition: 1996

Authors: Mark Dowie

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A recent history replete with compromise and capitulation has pushed a once promising and effective political movement to the brink of irrelevance. So states Mark Dowie in this provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement. Dowie, the prolific award-winning journalist who broke the stories on the Dalkon Shield and on the Ford Pinto, delivers an insightful, informative, and often damning account of the movement many historians and social commentators at one time expected to be this century's most significant. He unveils the inside stories behind American environmentalism's undeniable triumphs and its quite unnecessary failures. Dowie weaves a spellbinding tale,…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/25/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144

Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History (both published by the MIT Press), and four other books.



Preface: Courting Irrelevance


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Polite Revolution



The Environmental Imagination



The Culture of Reform



Fix Becomes Folly



Antagonists



The Third Wave



Environmental Justice



Faded Green



The Fourth Wave


Epilogue: A Reason (or Two) for Hope


Notes


Appendix A Principles of Environmental Justice


Appendix B Sierra Club Centennial Address



Appendix C The Wise Use Agenda


Index