Greener than Thou
Title | Greener than Thou PDF eBook |
Author | Terry L. Anderson |
Publisher | Hoover Press |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 2013-09-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0817948538 |
In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.
Greener Than You Think
Title | Greener Than You Think PDF eBook |
Author | Ward Moore |
Publisher | Ozymandias Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2018-01-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1531289150 |
Neither the vegetation nor people in this book are entirely fictitious. But, reader, no person pictured here is you. With one exception. You, Sir, Miss, or Madam - whatever your country or station - are Albert Weener. As I am Albert Weener.
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
Title | Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kingsnorth |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1555979726 |
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.
Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto
Title | Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Price |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 039354088X |
"Pithy, funny, exasperated, and informed…You cannot read a more important hundred pages than Stop Saving the Planet!" —Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands We’ve been "saving the planet" for decades!…And environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing—and low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences. Why aren’t we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists? Jenny Price says Enough already! with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. She challenges you, corporate sustainability officers, and the EPA to think and act completely anew—and to start right now—to ensure a truly habitable future.
Holier Than Thou
Title | Holier Than Thou PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Hill Perry |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 107 |
Release | 2021-08-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1535975709 |
If God is holy, then He can’t sin. If God can’t sin, then He can’t sin against you. If He can’t sin against you, shouldn’t that make Him the most trustworthy being there is? Bestselling author Jackie Hill Perry, in her much anticipated follow-up to Gay Girl, Good God, helps us find the reason we don’t trust God— we misunderstand His holiness. In Holier Than Thou, Jackie walks us through Scripture, shaking the dust off of “holy” as we’ve come to know it and revealing it for what it really is: good news. In these pages, we will see that God is not like us. He is different. He is holy. And that’s exactly what makes Him trustworthy. As it turns out, God being “holier than thou” is actually the best news in the world, and it’s the key to trusting Him.
Green Delusions
Title | Green Delusions PDF eBook |
Author | Martin W. Lewis |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780822314745 |
Scholars, politicians, and activists worldwide are finally recognizing the severity of the global environmental crisis, yet serious threats to the environmental movement remain. Anti-environmentalists dismiss the very idea of a "crisis" as a mirage. Much less obvious, however, is the more subtle threat masquerading under the mantle of environmentalism itself. It is this threat that Green Delusions addresses. Writing from the standpoint of a committed environmentalist, Martin W. Lewis contends that many of the most devoted and strident "greens," those who propose a radical environmentalism, unwittingly espouse an ill-conceived doctrine that has devastating implications for the global ecosystem. In this book he distinguishes the main variants of eco-extremism, exposes the fallacies upon which such views ultimately flounder, and demonstrates that the policies advocated by their proponents would, if enacted, result in unequivocal ecological disaster. At once polemic and prescriptive, Green Delusions is an impassioned attempt to defend the environmental movement against extremist ideas that would lead to self-defeating political strategies.
My Green Manifesto
Title | My Green Manifesto PDF eBook |
Author | David Gessner |
Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1571313249 |
Gessner makes a frank and funny case for a new environmentalism, cautioning us against the modern pitfalls of holier-than-thou posturing, capitalist green vendors, and fractured special-interest groups. He also suggests that global problems, though real, are disempowering, arguing instead for a movement focused on local issues and grounded in a more basic defense of home.