Mr. Dan Berger

Good corrective to the idea that the 70s were just a fatuous "Me Decade." Missing only (in my view) enough of a focus on radical environmentalism's roots in the decade, for example the mobilizations around the UN summit in 1970, resulting in the development of the ideas of deep ecology and bioregionalism, Love Canal kicking off the environmental justice movement in 1978, and Earth First's founding in 1979, to name a few. Otherwise a pretty panoramic view of the multiplicity of struggles that continued to develop in the US out of the transformational momentum of the previous decade; at the same time each article provides depth and detail about a particular, sometimes very localized situation, a real insider's view.… (mehr)