Earth First! 12, no. 8

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume 12

Roselle, Mike, ed., Earth First! Journal 12, no. 8 (22 September 1992). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6965.


This issue of Earth First! brings good news from the protests against logging on Albion River, Northern California. In addition, Lynn Jacobs talks about the Pinaleno Mountains, Susan Ring discusses the price of wolves, and George Wuerthner raises awareness about the water consumption of cows in the west.

When most people think of wasted water, they think of Los Angeles. L.A. is a city built in the desert […] But despite all its swimming pools, lawns and golf courses, Los Angeles is not the biggest consumer of water in California. […] it is cows, not people […]

— George Wuerthner  


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Further readings: 
  • Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. New York: Lippincott, 1975.
  • Bari, Judi. Revolutionary Ecology: Biocentrism & Deep Ecology. Melville: Trees Foundation, 1998.
  • Lee, Martha. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
  • Mies, Maria, and Vandana Shiva. Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books, 1993.
  • Taylor, Bron. “Earth First!’s Religious Radicalism.” In Ecological Prospects: Scientific, Religious, and Aesthetic Perspectives, edited by Christopher Key Chapple, 185-209. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
  • Wall, Derek. Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative Social Movements. Oxon: Routledge Chapman & Hall, 1999.