Reds and Greens

Frances Bolton (PHI) fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu
Mon Nov 30 20:12:38 PST 1998


On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, William S. Lear wrote:


> On Mon, November 30, 1998 at 14:17:55 (+0000) Alex LoCascio writes:
> >The discussion about whether or not environmentalism is compatible with
> >Marxism has been an interesting one. I was wondering if anyone could
> >recommend books on the environment written for a leftist audience? Is
> >John Bellamy Foster's the Vulnerable Planet a good place to start?
>
> Tom Athanasiou, *Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor*
> (Little, Brown, 1996) is outstanding.
>
Carolyn Merchant's book *Radical Ecology* might be a bit simple, and a couple of the chapters really suck (ecofeminism and spiritual ecology, anyone?) but it is a good overview, and she's got a decent bibliography.

The following books are all outstanding:

Laura Pulido, *Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest* (U Arizona, 1996) Wolfgang Sachs, *The Development Dictionary* (Zed, 1995) Richard Hofrichter, ed. *Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice* (New Society Publishers, 1993) Robert Gottlieb, *Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement* (Island Press, 1993)

frances



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