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Even as politicians continue to dismiss the notion of global warming, climatic change is turning millions into refugees. Spowers challenges the basic assumptions of the Western worldview, exposing the fundamental flaws in a system that believes in unlimited economic growth within a finite world.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

Abbreviations

xiv

Introduction

What Went Wrong?

3

(1)

Why Should We Care?

4

(4)

The Environmental Revolution

8

(4)

Some Basic Terms

12

(5)

Man vs Nature

Genesis: The First Division

17

(3)

The Greeks: Ancient Roots

20

(2)

The Secretary of Nature

22

(2)

The Cartesian Split

24

(2)

The `Progress' Myth

26

(4)

Change -- The Only Constant

30

(5)

The Romantic Tradition

35

(7)

The Perennial Philosophy

42

(9)

In the Land of the Free

The Pioneers and the Wilderness

51

(5)

Thinking Like a Mountain

56

(5)

The Chemical Age

61

(4)

Murray Bookchin: The Anarchic Prophet

65

(2)

The Counter-culture

67

(6)

Earth Day

73

(2)

Greenpeace

75

(11)

The Road of Excess

86

(12)

The Ecology of Hollywood

98

(7)

Anarchy in the UK

Enclosure: Our Land is Stolen

105

(4)

The Diggers: The Birth of Direct Action

109

(2)

Green Roots

111

(8)

Green Shoots

119

(6)

Friends of the Earth

125

(5)

Unity in Diversity

130

(3)

The Eco-wars

133

(6)

Convergence

139

(6)

The Greenwash

145

(8)

A Green and Pleasant Land

What Happened to Our Food?

153

(3)

The Agri-business

156

(7)

Bio-technology: Why?

163

(8)

Supermarkets and the Global Food System

171

(3)

The Organic Movement

174

(5)

The Vegetarian Movement

179

(3)

Alternative Agriculture Systems

182

(5)

From Diggers to Dongas: The Alternative Society

187

(8)

Techno-addicts

The Luddite Legacy

195

(3)

TV and Techno-addiction

198

(5)

Speed

203

(5)

Eco-technology

208

(6)

Intermediate Technology

214

(4)

Auto-addiction

218

(7)

Conclusion: Towards an Ecological Age

The New World-view

225

(2)

The New Science

227

(5)

The New Politics

232

(7)

The New Economics

239

(9)

A New Tribal Society for an Ecological Age

248

(9)

Epilogue -- A Spiritual Perspective

From Ego to Eco: Towards A New Sense of Self

257

(10)

Appendix 1: An Environmental Directory

267

(10)

Appendix 2: Graphs and Tables

277

(4)

Notes

281

(24)

Select Bibliography

305

(4)

Index

309

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Rising Tides: A History of the Environmental Revolution and Visions for an Ecological Age

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