Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse

by Martha F. Lee

Book Overview

In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First . A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. "The earth should come first" was a doctrine that championed both biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the earth's full complement of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815603657
• ISBN13: 9780815603658
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Guide for Beginning Eco-Terrorists

Are you sick of waiting around while our governments allow corporations to ravage our world's natural resources and uneducated people to overpopulate the planet until it is entirely uninhabitable? Do you want to take a, ahem, more proactive approach to environmental activism? If you answered yes and yes, then this book is an excellent start. It covers many of the basic ideas for the beginning eco-terrorist. Go green!