Peterson Del Mar | Environmentalism | Buch | 978-1-138-16081-1 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Short Histories of Big Ideas

Peterson Del Mar

Environmentalism


1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-16081-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Short Histories of Big Ideas

ISBN: 978-1-138-16081-1
Verlag: CRC Press


Environmental movements have produced some impressive results, including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and places. But movements that challenged western prosperity and comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists.

In this short guide, Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialisation made conservation sensible, but also drove people to look for meaning in nature even as they consumed its products more relentlessly. Hence Englandled the way in both manufacturing and preserving its countryside, and the United Statescreated a matchless set of national parks as it became the world's pre-eminent economic and military power. Environmentalismconsiders both the conservation and preservation movements and less organized forms of nature loving (from seaside vacations to ecotourism) to argue that these activities have commonly distracted us from the hard work of creating a sustainable and sensible relationship with the environment.
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Introduction. 1. Domesticating the Wild. 2. Industrialization and Nature Loving. 3. The Friendly Wild of Post-War Affluence. 4. Nature and Counterculture. 5. Breakthrough. 6. Radical Departures. 7. Thwarted and Splintered. 8. Extreme Nature Loving


David Peterson del Mar grew up in a very rural area as the son of a commercial fisherman and worked as a labourer for a sawmill. Over the past twelve years he has taught environmental history in Canada and the United States and has published four books on social history, including the award winning What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence against Wives (1996).


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