Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays Contributor(s): Kingsnorth, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977804 ISBN-13: 9781555977801 Publisher: Graywolf Press
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
Dewey: 363.7 |
LCCN: 2016951416 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.80 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/08/2017 Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2017 Library Journal 06/01/2017 Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 4 Shelf Awareness 08/04/2017 |
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Publisher Description: A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in "an age of ecocide" Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist--an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on "sustainability" rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls "dark ecology," which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed "Uncivilization" manifesto, asks hard questions about how we've lived and how we should live. |
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