The Rolling Stone Environmental Reader

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Through the years, Rolling Stone magaziné has published numerous articles that reflect a growing concern about the environment. Now, for the first time, the best of these essays are available in one volume, The Rolling Stone Environmental Reader. Written by leading journalists and environmentalists, this work exemplifies the strengths of Rolling Stone-outstanding journalism tempered with a healthy skepticism toward today's power brokers-and serves as a thought-provoking overview of the state of the environment. Excerpts from selected essays: "I do think it's important for the people who want to lead not to appear too oddball about it. Now, I'm an oddball teliing people not to be oddballs. If you're going to be an oddball, wear a three-piece suit and a tie now and then!" -Dávid Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute, on environmental leadership, from "Dávid Brower: The Rolling Stone Interview" by Bili McKibben "I think that a great deal of the... Tovább

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Through the years, Rolling Stone magaziné has published numerous articles that reflect a growing concern about the environment. Now, for the first time, the best of these essays are available in one volume, The Rolling Stone Environmental Reader. Written by leading journalists and environmentalists, this work exemplifies the strengths of Rolling Stone-outstanding journalism tempered with a healthy skepticism toward today's power brokers-and serves as a thought-provoking overview of the state of the environment. Excerpts from selected essays: "I do think it's important for the people who want to lead not to appear too oddball about it. Now, I'm an oddball teliing people not to be oddballs. If you're going to be an oddball, wear a three-piece suit and a tie now and then!" -Dávid Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute, on environmental leadership, from "Dávid Brower: The Rolling Stone Interview" by Bili McKibben "I think that a great deal of the spiritual groping and confusion in our society stems from the fact that we have strayed so far from our roots in the land. We have distanced ourselves from contact that we once had on a regular basis with the natural cycle of birth, death, decay and rebirth." -Don Henley, from Heaven is Under Our Feet: A Book for Walden Woods "Well, nuts (and berries and fiber) to you, you shrub huggers. It's time we in the industrialized nations admitted what safe, comfortable, and funfilled lives we lead. If we don't, we will cause irreparable harm to the disadvantaged peoples of the world. They're going to laugh themselves to death listening to us whine." -P.J. O'Rourke on Earth Day 1990, from "The Greenhouse Affect" Vissza