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Author: Kirkpatrick Sale
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.373kg
ISBN: 9780820322056
ISBN 10: 0820322059
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 30 April 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Dwellers in the Land addresses questions of the greatest importance to the future of human life. . . . Its truths are timely, and they encourage us to action.-- San Jose Mercury News
If it's radical and leading edge, Sale probably wrote about it sooner and better than anyone else. -- UTNE Reader A serious and wonderful book . . . excellent reading from cover to cover. -- Annals of Earth Dwellers in the Land is at once an alarm, a directive, and a tonic. One could hardly ask for more. -- Kansas City Star Dwellers in the Land addresses questions of the greatest importance to the future of human life. . . . Its truths are timely, and they encourage us to action. -- San Jose Mercury News Dwellers in the Land addresses questions of the greatest importance to the future of human life. . . . Its truths are timely, and they encourage us to action. --San Jose Mercury News A serious and wonderful book . . . excellent reading from cover to cover. --Annals of Earth Dwellers in the Land is at once an alarm, a directive, and a tonic. One could hardly ask for more. --Kansas City Star If it's radical and leading edge, Sale probably wrote about it sooner and better than anyone else. --UTNE Reader Dwellers in the Land addresses questions of the greatest importance to the future of human life. . . . Its truths are timely, and they encourage us to action.-- San Jose Mercury News A serious and wonderful book . . . excellent reading from cover to cover.-- Annals of Earth Dwellers in the Land is at once an alarm, a directive, and a tonic. One could hardly ask for more.-- Kansas City Star If it's radical and leading edge, Sale probably wrote about it sooner and better than anyone else.-- UTNE Reader
An introduction to bioregionalism, the philosophy at the heart of the worldwide movement of ecological politics known by the sobriquet Green. Bioregionalists, like most environmentalists, use the language of ecology to deplore the current state of the environment and contend that modern technology - the megacity, nuclear power, etc. - have put a vast psychic distance between people and the natural world. Where they part ways with conventional environmentalism is in the belief that federal regulation, presidential dispensation and other band-aid approaches imposed from above cannot avert the coming ecological crisis; nothing short of a cognitive shift will suffice. The scientific world view that has ruled the Western mind since the Renaissance must be dethroned by an ecological one which puts technology at the behest of nature rather than at loggerheads with it. Slowly but inexorably, through grass-roots efforts to make humans more sensitive to their bioregions - the natural geographic regions defined by their flora and fauna, landforms and watersheds - a new way of economic, cultural and political life would evolve. Though Sale does a good job of describing the broad outlines of the bioregional concept, he's less adept at exploring its implications: How, exactly, would an economy based not on simple-minded growth but rather biological sustainability through self-reliant bioregions operate? And why has the Green movement blossomed in places like Germany but not here, when much of the groundwork for steady state economics, for instance, has been laid by American economists like Herman Daly? All this sounds hopelessly utopian, but Sale claims it is rooted in historical realities and patterns of the present, such as regional planning and local cuisine and the belief in self-reliance and town-meeting democracy at the heart of traditional American, or at least Jeffersonian, values. Anyone interested in the arcane eddies of environmental thought will find this a serviceable first stab at an American Green manifesto. (Kirkus Reviews)
Dwellers in the Land addresses questions of the greatest importance to the future of human life. . . . Its truths are timely, and they encourage us to action. -- San Jose Mercury News
Author Information
Kirkpatrick Sale is a writer and lecturer whose books include SDS; Human Scale; and The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. His articles have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Newsweek, the Nation, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Rain, Harper's, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York.
