Doing Their Share to Save the Planet: Children and the Environmental Crisis

by Donna Lee King

Book Overview

What do American children see as the biggest threat to their future? Not superpowers and corporate greed, but rather litterbugs and water wasters. The fear is a reasonable one, yet it is also one that is forced on children from every side. They are targeted for messages about the environmental crisis by schools, television programs, T-shirts, "green" comics on milk cartons and cereal boxes. Through interviewing children, and conducting a fascinating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521858
• ISBN13: 9780813521855
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.