Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism

by Paul Wapner

Book Overview

How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.

Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now everywhere and all efforts to "preserve"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014157
• ISBN13: 9780262014151
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher