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100 1 _aKingsnorth, Paul,
_d1972-
245 1 0 _aConfessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays /
_cPaul Kingsnorth.
264 1 _aMinneapolis, Minnesota :
_bGraywolf Press,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _ax, 284 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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505 0 0 _gIntroduction:
_tFinding the river --
_gI. Collapse.
_tA crisis of bigness ;
_tUpon the mathematics of the falling away ;
_tThe drowned world ;
_tThe space race is over ;
_tThe quants and the poets ;
_tA short history of loss --
_gII.
_tWithdrawal. Confessions of a recovering environmentalist ;
_tThe poet and the machine ;
_tLearning what to make of it ;
_tthe barcode moment ;
_tDark ecology --
_gIII. Connection.
_tIn the black chamber ;
_tThe old yoke ;
_tThe bay ;
_tRescuing the English ;
_tThe witness ;
_tSinging to the forest ;
_tPlanting trees in the Anthropocene --
_gEpilogue:
_tUncivilisation /
_rwith Dougald Hine ;
_tThe eight principles of uncivilisation.
520 _a"Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist--an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on "sustainability" rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake, and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking. In them he articulates a new vision, one that stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds."--Page 4 of cover.
600 1 0 _aKingsnorth, Paul,
_d1972-
650 0 _aDeep ecology.
650 0 _aEnvironmentalism.
650 0 _aEnvironmental policy.
650 0 _aEnvironmental responsibility.
650 0 _aEnvironmentalists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 4 _aNATURE / Essays.
650 7 _aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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650 7 _aNATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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