Wild Earth 12, no. 4

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 12, no. 4

Intended as yet another instrument for attacking anthropocentric ideologies and voracious agricultural/industrial civilizations, the journal Wild Earth was published by the Earth First! movement between 1991–2004.


Butler, Tom, ed., Wild Earth 12, no. 4 (Winter 2002/03). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6104.

Issue Theme: Freedom of the Seas

This issue includes:

  • Launching a Sea Ethic by Carl Safina
  • Fishing for a Wild Ocean by Martin Willison
  • Distortion of World Fisheries by Capital by Gerald Smith
  • Sylvia Earle: Our Oceans, Ourselves interviewed by Brad Meiklejohn
  • From Killer Whales to Kelp: Food Web Complexity in Kelp Forest Ecosystems by James Estes
  • Restoring Southern California’s Kelp Forests by Chantal E. Collier
  • Homeless Fish: Bottom Trawls Bulldoze Seafloor Habitat by Hannah Gillelan
  • Undersea by Rachel Carson
  • The Deep Underneath: Life in the Darkness of Monterey Canyon by Carol Hunter
  • Conserving the Sea Using Lessons from the Land by Bradley Barr and James Lindholm
  • EcoFish, Inc. Trolls the Waters of Consumer Conscience by Joshua Brown

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Further readings: 
  • Weis, Judith. Marine Pollution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Beer, Tom. Environmental Oceanography. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1997.
  • Caprari, Amanda M. "Lovable Pirates: The Legal Implications of the Battle between Environmentalists and Whalers in the Southern Ocean." Connecticut Law Review 42, no. 5 (2010).
  • Kraemer, Erick. "Tackling Problems of Overfishing: Protecting Sharks and Bluefin Tuna." Environmental Claims Journal 25, no. 3 (2013): 250–71.
  • Koslow, J. Anthony. The Silent Deep: the Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • Butler, Tom, ed. Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
  • United Nations, ed. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2013.