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Rising Tides: A History of the Environmental Revolution and Visions for an Ecological Age,9781841953571
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Rising Tides: A History of the Environmental Revolution and Visions for an Ecological Age


Author(s): Spowers, Rory
ISBN10:  1841953571
ISBN13:  9781841953571
Format:  Hardcover
Pub. Date:  3/1/2003
Publisher(s): Pgw

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SummaryTable of Contents
A concise, hard-hitting account of the environmental movement chronicles this varied movement, providing readers with a directory of groups and activist networks involved in the movement.
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction
What Went Wrong?
3(1)
Why Should We Care?
4(4)
The Environmental Revolution
8(4)
Some Basic Terms
12(5)
Man vs Nature
Genesis: The First Division
17(3)
The Greeks: Ancient Roots
20(2)
The Secretary of Nature
22(2)
The Cartesian Split
24(2)
The `Progress' Myth
26(4)
Change -- The Only Constant
30(5)
The Romantic Tradition
35(7)
The Perennial Philosophy
42(9)
In the Land of the Free
The Pioneers and the Wilderness
51(5)
Thinking Like a Mountain
56(5)
The Chemical Age
61(4)
Murray Bookchin: The Anarchic Prophet
65(2)
The Counter-culture
67(6)
Earth Day
73(2)
Greenpeace
75(11)
The Road of Excess
86(12)
The Ecology of Hollywood
98(7)
Anarchy in the UK
Enclosure: Our Land is Stolen
105(4)
The Diggers: The Birth of Direct Action
109(2)
Green Roots
111(8)
Green Shoots
119(6)
Friends of the Earth
125(5)
Unity in Diversity
130(3)
The Eco-wars
133(6)
Convergence
139(6)
The Greenwash
145(8)
A Green and Pleasant Land
What Happened to Our Food?
153(3)
The Agri-business
156(7)
Bio-technology: Why?
163(8)
Supermarkets and the Global Food System
171(3)
The Organic Movement
174(5)
The Vegetarian Movement
179(3)
Alternative Agriculture Systems
182(5)
From Diggers to Dongas: The Alternative Society
187(8)
Techno-addicts
The Luddite Legacy
195(3)
TV and Techno-addiction
198(5)
Speed
203(5)
Eco-technology
208(6)
Intermediate Technology
214(4)
Auto-addiction
218(7)
Conclusion: Towards an Ecological Age
The New World-view
225(2)
The New Science
227(5)
The New Politics
232(7)
The New Economics
239(9)
A New Tribal Society for an Ecological Age
248(9)
Epilogue -- A Spiritual Perspective
From Ego to Eco: Towards A New Sense of Self
257(10)
Appendix 1: An Environmental Directory 267(10)
Appendix 2: Graphs and Tables 277(4)
Notes 281(24)
Select Bibliography 305(4)
Index 309

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