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This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.
Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the challenges posed by the interconnection of environmental issues, between charismatic leaders and bureaucratic organizations, and between grassroot movements and global players. While the history can be traced back several centuries, environmentalism has flourished since the ‘environmental revolution’ of 1970, spurred on by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 and the growing concern about global warming. While environmentalists often opposed the scientific mainstream, they were also often led by scientific knowledge. Environmentalism is the true Enlightenment of our time Ð so much so that we can call our era ‘the age of ecology’.
This timely and comprehensive global history of environmentalism will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the most pressing global issues of our time.
- Sales Rank: #1581960 in Books
- Published on: 2014-04-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.80" w x 6.40" l, 2.65 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 600 pages
Review
"Radkau's new book is by far the finest informative read available on the environmental movement in its many diverse varieties from its modern beginnings until now, and the women and men whose passions inspired it. Protests and politics, activism and reaction, love of nature and hatred of pollution – all are shown with a clarity that makes sense to the reader. This is the compelling global story of the most distinctive popular movement of our age, the Age of Ecology."
J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver
"With his customary synoptic vision and idiosyncratic eye for telling detail, Radkau offers a revealing tableau of the multiple histories of modern environmentalism in Europe, in America, and around the world. The Age of Ecology is the most thought-provoking and wide-ranging book yet on its subject."
J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University
"A comprehensive and compelling global history of environmental movements.'
Die Zeit
"An authoritative global history of ecology."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Brilliant - by far the best account of the global environmental movement ... A great achievement."
Deutschlandradio Kultur
About the Author
Joachim Radkau is professor of modern history at Bielefeld University, Germany. His previous publications include Wood: A History and Max Weber: A Biography.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A Limited, Eurocentric Review of Modern Political Environmentalism
By Brad4d
Any history of Ecology is a noble and necessary effort worth investigating, but I was disappointed with this book (if you are an academic studying this area, this review will not be for you). This is unlikely to get this reviewer many "favorable" votes, but I can't remember a single thing I learned from it which will help me make the environment a better place, or to appreciate ecology. Right now the best environmental use I can think of for this book is to gently place it into the recycling bin and return it to the good earth.
Here's why I was so disappointed:
-- First, counter to the book's assurances, I doubt this is the Age of Ecology. Sure, we've seen tons of paper extolling how "we" are all becoming ecologically aware, and today you can join hundreds of supposedly environmentalist movements, but we willingly produce ever more waste, more habitat degradation, and more climate change -- and in Eurocentric nations, too. And ... not just by corporations or governments, but by willing people who drive SUV's with a "Save the Planet" bumper sticker, or who demand the latest soon-to-be-outdated energy-guzzling electronics. Even this book took too many trees and too much energy for all the good it is likely to do. There's a disconnect here. This may be the Age of Wishful Ecology, not the Age of Ecology.
-- Despite the disclaimers in the Preface and Introduction, I found this an overwhelmingly Eurocentric history of modern political environmentalism ("Eurocentrism" is not a slur, but a grab-bag term loosely referring to governments of Europe, Japan, the US, and the former USSR, all of which heavily depend on classical European ideas for their political models). Yes, you'll find some general discussion of non-industrialized areas, but I would estimate at least 90% of the book is Eurocentric. That's too bad, because I would have loved more insight into the challenges and management of ecology by other cultures around our planet. For example, I found less than a page on Native American environmental attitudes but seven pages on Nazi Germany's environmental policies. I found much material on how Eurocentric governments responded to environmental problems, and how various Euro-American environmental movements arose and evolved into mass movements, but next to nothing on specifically non-industrial issues like the huge problems of plastic waste disposal you'll find in many non-industrialized countries. Perhaps Europe and America are the vanguards which will eventually enlighten the entire planet, but given Germany's willingness to use rainforest land to produce biomass for its BMW's, perhaps it is not. Although the book gives plenty of nods to Euro-thinking non-Europeans, it winds up sounding like just another form of "we-know-best" cultural imperialism, albeit one written from the perspective of a European academic.
-- The book seems to view nuclear power as a litmus test for environmental correctness. Great, but it gives nothing about quantified relative risk assessments or how nuclear power compares with, say, fossil fuels as a contributor to environmental problems. Actually, the book's evidence-based quantification seems skimpy, so although the book is well-referenced, you pretty much have to take its word that its generalizations are true (my book had no Bibliography). You won't even find much statistically meaningful assessment of popular attitudes towards environmental issues. That may be a moot point because...
-- The book seems to support an agenda that centralized management of environmental issues (preferably generated by "mass movements," of course) is best, but this ignores the environmentally disastrous experiences of the USSR, Eastern Europe, pre-Millenium China, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, etc. (although the book does conclude some of these entities made some mistakes). Indeed, even Germany seems to be having some problems filtering centralized environmental regulations through multiple layers of bureaucracy. Clearly, some kind of more cooperative effort may be needed.
-- The book gives very little about how humans have continued to appreciate the wonders of ecology (art and poetry seem conspicuous by their effective absence) or how non-industrialized peoples have worked with the environment in the modern age or before. It also fails to give much critique of significant problems with Eurocentric political environmentalism (such as spending tons of jet fuel and gasoline to transport participants to dubious lectures or conferences on the environment).
-- The book has a nice section on eco-feminism, but by making it appear the ten featured women were exceptional it paradoxically makes it seem most women are at the margins of environmentalism. I would estimate a considerable majority of the book's subjects are male.
-- Finally, I did not think the book was especially well-written (although translations are always challenging). This made it hard to form a conclusive overall impression or to do much research other than using the index. Any omissions in this Review may be due to my experience that this book was just tough to thoroughly slog through, despite its potentially intriguing subject.
On the bright side, the author gives an excellent year-by-year time-line as each chapter begins. The author obviously spent much time on the book and it should make a fine textbook for a course on Modern Eurocentric Political Environmentalism (that's why it deserves two stars, IMHO). Also, mine is one limited opinion, and you should of course also read the limited opinions of those who thought this book was terrific.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An outstanding history of the environmental movement told from a European perspective
By Robert Moore
This is a large, impressive work of scholarship that ought to be read by anyone interested in ecology, environmentalism, or Green movements.I particularly recommend it to American audiences. The history of environmentalism in the United States usually goes something like this: Europe was too over developed to appreciated wide, undeveloped areas and therefore lacked the landscapes to develop a full blown theory about the value of wilderness. In the US the Hudson River School under Thomas Cole and other painters started developing new ways of painting nature, which came to full development when the American Transcendentalists - especially Emerson and Thoreau - developed new views about the value of wilderness. Their views were taken over by John Muir whose writings found an audience in the East, while the paintings of Yellowstone by Thomas Moran and of many places out West were captured by Albert Bierstadt. This inspired Theodore Roosevelt and others to push for the first national parks, and the story moves from there to other prominent environmentalists like Aldo Leopold and David Broder to Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams.
The problem in the American account leaves out the influence of Constable and others on American painting, not to mention David Caspar Friedrich, whose paintings are as haunting as any in America except possibly Bierstadt. And the American account leaves out Wordsworth and Coleridge, the latter not merely as a poet but as the popularizer of Kant. whose influence in turn on Emerson and the other Transcendentalists is amazing. And while there were no Europeans conceptualizing wilderness in quite the way that Thoreau was, it has to be kept in mind that he wrote not in a wilderness area but in a well developed part of New England.
Radkau's account begins rather later than most American accounts do. And let me interrupt just a second to point out the absolutely absurd sentence that starts the flyleaf couldn't be more ridiculous or wrong: "This book is the first major history of environmentalism." Joachim Radkau did not write that, but a poorly informed copy writer. I have done some copy writing, so let me offer the copy writer a defense. Sometimes when you are asked to copy write you are give a summary of the contents of the book, not a copy of the book itself. The materials you have to work with are sometimes meager, so writing such a patently ridiculous sentence might seem plausible if you haven't read extensively in the field. I absolutely would not call this the first major history of environmentalism. Several major works already can lay claim to that title, not least Roderick Nash's masterful WILDERNESS AND THE AMERICAN MIND.
So how does this exceptionally find book differ from Nash's history? First, Radkau starts his story pretty far along. He covers in the first 50 pages of his book what Nash covers in the first 300 of his. But here is where Radkau's fat volume becomes so valuable. He picks up the story at the point where Nash and Donald Worster both start to wind theirs down, and tells the story of 20th century environmentalism in a degree of detail impossible for those earlier writers.
The second and perhaps greater value of the book is that it focuses on all kinds of things left out of American narratives. For instance, a section entitled "Ten Heroines Embodying Tensions" starts with Petra Kelly, labeling her section "The best known Green in the world." I'm extremely well reading in the American environmental story and can recite details of one crisis after another, but I can assure you that I've never heard the name "Petra Kelly."
So the greatest value of this book is probably going to be to apprise North Americans of precisely what is taking place in the rest of the world but especially Europe in the world of ecology. And with fewer and fewer people denying both the reality of global warming and that the causes are largely caused by human-produced greenhouse gases, it would be instructive for inhabitants of North America to gain a better understanding of how are neighbors across the ocean are dealing with these matters. They might also find it humbling that Radkau's book includes a great deal more about what is happening in the world outside Europe on ecological matters than American books do about what is transpiring in Europe. But this outstanding book provides an excellent opportunity to begin closing the gap.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
should be everyone's textbook on the history of Ecology
By William S Jamison
This book should be everyone's textbook on the history of Ecology. Great details on all the big players and their efforts with just the right amount of detail to inspire further research by those that get interested. There are a relevant number of photographs and resources mentioned to lead to that research if students want to follow up on things. It is also the right length to be read in a semester packed with other requirements.
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