- University of North Carolina Press
The Wild and the Toxic: American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health
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- Jennifer Thomson
- University of North Carolina Press
- Hardcover
- 9781469651644
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.63 inches
- 1.13 pounds
- Nature > Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- English
Book Description
Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present: the environmental lobby, environmental justice groups, radical environmentalism and bioregionalism, and climate justice activism. By focusing on health, environmentalists were empowered to intervene in the rise of neoliberalism, the erosion of the regulatory state, and the decimation of mass-based progressive politics. Yet, as this book reveals, an individualist definition of health ultimately won out over more communal understandings. Considering this turn from collective solidarity toward individual health helps explain the near paralysis of collective action in the face of planetary disaster.
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