Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment

✍ Scribed by Joy Palmer, David Cooper, Peter Blaze Corcoran

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 336
• Series: Routledge Key Guides
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I'm an agronomist and I like to read books.
This book is weak.In fact, when someone lent this trash-book, I didn't even ended it.
When the part about the brazilian Chico Mendes came, I decided not to continous.This book claims that Chico Mendes was a good man.Even respecting the life and being against Chico Mendes' murder, I must tell you that Chico Mendes did nothing good, for Brazil or any of his followers.The real thing who Chico Mendes and all of so called "environmentalists" gave to Acre's souls and in fact all brazilian people was and is: poverty, corruption, recession and frauds.
Ecologism or environmentalim is nothing more than a new name for eugenics.
This book is ridiculous puting good people and rogue people, in the same basket of the godless religion of environmentalism.
To preserve the so called "Nature" replaced the will to preserve, the so called "Race".The prejudices and goals of eugenics in the past are the same as ecology today.Even the "phillantropic" american foundations of eugenics and ecology are the same:Rockefeller, MacArthur, Kellogg, Carnegie,etc. are now gaving massive fortunes to ecologists, such as they were giving massive amount of money to eugenicists some decades ago.
Eugenics = ecology ; To preserve the "race" = To preserve the "nature".
Rockefeller = Rockfeller ;Carnegie = Carnegie ; Kellogg = Kellogg.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
Alphabetical list of contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 14
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Buddha, fifth century BCE......Page 16
Chuang Tzu, fourth century BCE......Page 22
Aristotle, 384–322 BCE......Page 27
Virgil, 70–19 BCE......Page 32
Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/2–1226......Page 37
Wang Yang-ming, 1472–1528......Page 42
Michel de Montaigne, 1533–92......Page 48
Francis Bacon, 1561–1626......Page 53
Benedict Spinoza, 1632–77......Page 59
Basho-, 1644–94......Page 66
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712–78......Page 71
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832......Page 78
Thomas Robert Malthus, 1766–1834......Page 84
William Wordsworth, 1770–1850......Page 89
John Clare, 1793–1864......Page 98
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803–82......Page 108
Charles Darwin, 1809–82......Page 115
Henry David Thoreau, 1817–62......Page 121
Karl Marx, 1818–83......Page 128
John Ruskin, 1819–1900......Page 133
Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822–1903......Page 137
John Muir, 1838–1914......Page 146
Anna Botsford Comstock, 1854–1930......Page 151
Rabindranath Tagore, 1861–1941......Page 158
Black Elk, 1862–1950......Page 162
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867–1959......Page 169
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869–1948......Page 175
Albert Schweitzer, 1875–1965......Page 182
Aldo Leopold, 1887–1948......Page 189
Robinson Jeffers, 1887–1962......Page 196
Martin Heidegger, 1889–1976......Page 204
Rachel Carson, 1907–64......Page 209
Lynn White, Jr, 1907–87......Page 215
E.F.Schumacher, 1911–77......Page 220
Arne Naess, 1912–......Page 226
John Passmore, 1914–......Page 231
James Lovelock, 1919–......Page 236
Ian McHarg, 1920–......Page 243
Murray Bookchin, 1921–......Page 256
Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929–......Page 261
Paul Ehrlich, 1932–......Page 267
Holmes Rolston III, 1932–......Page 275
Rudolf Bahro, 1935–97......Page 284
Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1939–......Page 289
Val Plumwood, 1939–......Page 298
J.Baird Callicott, 1941–......Page 305
Susan Griffin, 1943–......Page 310
Chico Mendes, 1944–88......Page 317
Peter Singer, 1946–......Page 322
Vandana Shiva, 1952–......Page 328