The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think about the Environment

by David Zierler

Book Overview

As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "ecocide."

David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was developed in agricultural circles and theories of counterinsurgency were studied by the military. These two trajectories converged in 1961 with Operation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820338273
• ISBN13: 9780820338279
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"