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Earth First! 2, no. 7
In this issue of Earth First!, Peter Dustrud steps down as editor of EF!, effectively leaving the Earth First! movement.
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The Bishnoi: Revisiting Religious Environmentalism and Traditional Forest and Wildlife Management in the Thar Desert
This article traces how Bishnoi religious beliefs have informed environmental activism as well as present-day forest conservation and wildlife-protection strategies in the Thar Desert, India.
Exhibition chapter
Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring | Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
This is Chapter 10 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.
Multimedia | book profile
Roundtable Review of The Invention of Ecocide by David Zierler
In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.
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Earth First! 2, no. 8
In this issue of Earth First! Dave Foreman guides readers through “An Environmental Strategy for the ’80s,” Chim Blea discusses “The Ethics of Vegetarianism,” and Foreman states that Earth First! will begin featuring “provocative and challenging material on Deep Ecology and reviews of the other intellectual currents” in order to win the environmental battle against the neo-conservatives and their “economic views of Earth and life.”
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“Imagining Rivers: The Aesthetics, History, and Politics of American Waterways. A Conversation Between Lawrence Buell and Christof Mauch”
Full article.
Perspectives Article
E. O. Wilson’s Biodiversity, Commodity Culture, and Sentimental Globalism
This essay discusses Biodiversity, the 1988 landmark collection of papers edited by American biologist E. O. Wilson, which established biodiversity as a popular scientific concept.
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Earth First! 1, no. 4
Issue four of Earth First! deals with some of the movement’s actions to save the environment.
Perspectives
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: Encounters and Legacies
This issue of RCC Perspectives takes a sweeping look at encounters with and legacies of the book, examining the global impact of Silent Spring over its half century of existence and considering the ways in which Rachel Carson’s ecological worldview equips us to understand and confront current and future challenges to our planet.
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"Silent Spring at 50"
A comparative analysis of the reception of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the United States and in the UK.