Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays

The Resource Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays

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Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays

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Paul Kingsnorth

Language

eng

Summary

"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, one that 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."--Page 4 of cover

Biography type

contains biographical information

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YDX

Dewey number

363.7

Index

no index present

LC call number

GE195

LC item number

.K56 2017

Literary form

non fiction

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