Environmentalism for a new millennium

Description

Leslie Paul Thiele provides a much-needed analysis of the driving forces within the environmental movement and the key challenges that it faces. Through extensive interviews and a critical study of environmental publications and scholarly research, the author provides an inside look at the environmental movement. His analysis illuminates the social, economic, political and cultural forces that shape the environmental movement today and set its trajectory for the 21st century. Anyone interested the future of environmentalism will find this book an invaluable guide.

First Sentence

environment or an incorrigible foe. They endlessly dispute whether the primary focus of action should be the curbing of human numbers (mostly in developing nations) or the controlling of human consumption (mostly in developed nations).

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Other Editions

• Environmentalism for a new millennium: the challenge of coevolutionOxford University Press1999-01-01
• Environmentalism for a New MillenniumOxford University Press1999-01-01
• Environmentalism for a New MillenniumOxford University Press, Incorporated1999-01-01
• Environmentalism for a New MillenniumOxford University Press, USA2001-10-31