| From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century Contributor(s): Buell, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415950406 ISBN-13: 9780415950404 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: "From Apocalypse to Way of Life" is the most stirring, comprehensive account of the environmental crisis since Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." In vivid prose, Frederick Buell illustrates the growing complexity of our ecological catastrophe as well as the suffocating political and cultural forces that blunt our response to it. In some quarters, the prophecies of doom have produced a Chicken Little syndrome: If the sky has not yet fallen, why should we believe it will? Buell counters with the hard facts about contemporary threats to human health--deforestation freshwater depletion, ocean pollution, biodiversity loss, synthetic hormones--while tracing the expressions of environmental apocalypse in popular culture. With passion and eloquence, From Apocalypse to Way of Life shows us the crisis that is staring us in the face, and explains why we can no longer see it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 363.700 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 14.7" W x 8.98" (1.11 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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| Publisher Description: From Apocalypse to Way of Life is a comprehensive and in depth survey of environmental crisis as it has been understood for the last four decades. Buell recounts the growing number of ecological and social problems critical for the environment, and the impact that the growing experience with, and understanding of, them has had on American politics, society and culture. |