TOC; Ch 1: Saving the Living World; Ch 2: Subdue the Earth; Ch 3: Early Stirrings; Ch 4: An Emerging Movement; Ch 5: The Green Decade; Ch 6: Legislating Change; Ch 7: The 1980s Backlash; Ch 8: Losing Influence; Ch 9: Reinventing Environmentalism; Ch 10: Environmentalism and America; Chronology and Timeline; Notes; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index
Summary
Introduces readers to the movement, which arose in the United States in the late 1800s in response to the nation's dwindling forests and the pollution caused by a greater number of factories. This useful book also details how environmentalism has become a global effort, led by organizations such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund
