In case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.
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The authors offer a manifesto for the humanities to step up to the challenges of environmental change, and invite others to join the open global consortium Humanities for the Environment.
Wild Earth 7, no. 4 features provocative essays on population extinction and the biodiversity crisis, how immigration threatens America’s natural environment, the costs of affluence and consumption, and a technological imperative.
Wild Earth 7, no. 3 features contributions by Bill McKibben on “Job and Wilderness;” Donald Worster on “The Wilderness of History;” Richard Harris on the rivers of Catalonia, Spain; and Andrew Kroll and Dwight Barry on the integration of conservation and community in Colorado.
In Wild Earth 7, no. 2 Doug Peacock presents his field report on the Yellowstone bison slaughter, Reed Noss writes about endangered major ecosystems of the United States, and Virginia Abernethy analyzes if and how population growth discourages environmentally sound behavior.
In Wild Earth 7, no. 1 David Abram rediscovers our animal senses, Stephanie Kaza analyzes assumptions and stereotypes about human-nature relations, Connie Barlow reflects on the epic of evolution, and Christopher Manes reflects on a meaningful relationship with the wild.
Wild Earth 6, no. 4 features essays opposing wilderness deconstruction. Gary Snyder writes on nature as a social construction, Dave Foreman contributes a piece on the conservation opposition’s underlying views, and Don Waller discusses the evolution of wilderness concepts.
In Wild Earth 6, no. 3 Max Oelschlaeger discusses religion and the conservation of biodiversity, Christopher Genovali reflects on the Alberta oil rush, Joseph P. Dudley writes about biodiversity in Southern Africa, and A. Kent MacDougall considers thinking of humans as a cancer.
An Inconvenient Truth is a passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.