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Title: Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization by Christopher Manes ISBN: 0-316-54513-9 Publisher: Little Brown and Company Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.45 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book on Environmental Crisis, Ecowarriors
Comment: Green Rage is the best book on the market portraying the roots of our environmental problems. It gives an in-depth, personal account of the brave activists who are fighting to protect the Wild. Most important, the book cuts through the usual rhetoric about sustained development and "green" consumerism to get to the core problem: our spiritual disorientation that stems from being alienated from nature. The first-person stories it tells of ecowarriors and their battles against greed and stupidity (including detailed accounts of "ecotage" against environmentally destructive companies) are inspiring. A must-read for anyone not completely brainwashed by consumer society (and it might even convince those folks too). The fact that the book has been so prominently attacked by the apologists for the continued destruction of wild nature for economic gain (it's quoted extensively by appalled anti-environmental writers) testifies to its honesty and importance.
Rating: 2
Summary: Green Rage - loud talk, no brains
Comment: The brief, passionate title of Manes' book certainly caught my eye. Unfortunately, Manes makes no convincing arguments on behalf of radical environmentalism in this tedious diatribe. Instead, he simply spouts empty rhetoric and a few conspiracy theories. Manes emphasizes his contention that civilization is on the brink of collapse due to our violent attitude toward nature. Do we need to change our attitude toward nature? Well, I think so. Will Manes' book convince anybody of this? I doubt it. If you want to read a good book about the Earth First! movement, read "Confessions of an Eco-Warrior," a homey but surprisingly articulate collection of essays by Dave Foreman, an on-again, off-again proponent of radicalism. The best I can say about Green Rage is that if you are into radical environmentalism, it will get you riled up. The worst I can say is that it does a disservice to the environment by being a waste of the paper it is printed on.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good overview of the early Earth First! movement
Comment: Christopher Manes gives a compelling rationale for the rise of radical ecology groups, specifically Earth First! which he was a part of at the time. The history of Earth First! as presented here is somewhat one-sided, both because of the author and because of the date it was published (1991). Earth First! around the time the book was published had undergone a split between the original founders of the group (the "misanthrope" faction) and newer elements based on the West Coast who wanted to incorporate Earth First! into the broader context of the feminist, peace, neopagan, and social justice movements. Manes was part of the former faction, which left Earth First! around the time his book was published; thus, his history of Earth First! is now badly dated and tends to concentrate only on the faction he was part of. (This faction left the movement they had originally founded and started a magazine called "Wild Earth" as well as a large number of grassroots wilderness groups which have become part of the mainstream ecology movement). The Earth First! of today is not the same group at all which Manes' book is about, but rather is aligned with urban anarchists, feminism, and neopagans. Nonetheless, this is an excellent book to read if you are interested in the history of, and rationale behind, Earth First! prior to 1991. For a more up-to-date analysis of Earth First! and the rise of the newer faction that took over the group, also read Dave Foreman's _Confessions of an Eco-Warrior_, Martha Lee's _Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse_, and Susan Zakin's _Coyotes and Town Dogs_.
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Title: Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman ISBN: 051788058X Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching by Dave Foreman ISBN: 0963775103 Publisher: Abbzug Pr Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature : The World of the Unabomber by Ron Arnold ISBN: 0939571188 Publisher: Free Enterprise Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce ISBN: 096226833X Publisher: Noble Press Inc Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthology (Io ; No. 50) by Alan Drengson, Yuichi Inoue ISBN: 1556431988 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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