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Faith in Nature
Environmentalism as Religious Quest
The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason...
ISBN: 9780295985565
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DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism
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No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes...
ISBN: 9780295988344
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