The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal, Dug sends greetings from the new EF! Journal headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, Karen Pickett gives an update on MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber’s (PL) lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), Leith Kahl comments on the structurelessness of the Earth First! movement, and Kieran Suckling discusses the connections between the biological and linguistic diversity crises.
Earth First! 27, no. 2 features articles on nuclear resistance in Germany, Trinidad community’s fight against the Alcoa aluminum smelter, Molokai’i activists’ battle to “save the last Hawaiian island”, and the self-sustaining community Umoja Village Shantytown in Miami.
Earth First! 29, no. 1 reports on the movement’s victory against the Pacific Lumber Company, the climate and anti-racist camp in Germany, the Northeast Climate Confluence, the international movement of camps and convergences for climate action, and repression against animal activists in Austria.