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Title: Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature by Jeffrey St. Clair, Jeffrey St Clair ISBN: 1-56751-258-5 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Chainsaw massacres
Comment: Crusading environmental journalist Jeffrey St. Clair has written a devastating tale of corporate plunder, political hypocrisy and ecological loss. The book opens with a description of a wooded canyon in the Pacific Northwest, where osprey soar and cougars still prowl. It ends with a grim portrait of Butte, Montana, a toxic slag-heap of a town that is the country's largest Superfund site. In between, it takes on the Bush administration, the mining and timber industries, the Wise Use movement and the country's private utilities, among other worthy targets.
St. Clair metes out criticism in a decidedly non-partisan way. While giving Reagan and Bush officials a series of well-merited thrashings, he is equally relentless in detailing Clinton/Gore era wrongs. Nor does St. Clair have much patience for the environmental lawyers who drive BMWs, populate corporate boardrooms, and negotiate politically-expedient compromises. "Institutional environmentalists," he calls them, with disdain, "corporate-tolerant greens."
The book is hard-hitting and opinionated, but fair. If you want to understand what's been happening to the nation's mountains, forests, rivers, and wild creatures over the past couple of decades, you should read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of Environmental Journalism
Comment: This is simply the best book on environmental politics ever written.
Many so-called environmentalists believe it is only the Republicans that rape our natural resources. Mainstream environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and the League of Conservation Voters, hardly ever reward Republicans with high marks -- so the Democrats must be more apt at protecting nature they tell us.
St. Clair debunks this myth with an engaging lucid style, that makes me wonder if Edward Abbey has been reincarnated as a journalist.
However, this book is not only for environmentalists, it is a must read for anybody who has ever been on a hike or driven a car past a clear cut, and wondered "how and why did this happen?"
This collection will be for the environment, what Fast Food Nation has been for our food culture. It is a remarkably smart, well researched prose, unlike any other I've ever laid eyes upon. St. Clair knows his stuff, and we are all so lucky to have him share it with us. This is a must own for anybody that has ever claimed to love the outdoors or politics. "Been Brown so Long.. " is a masterpiece.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: In this compilation of wonderfully written articles, author Jeffrey St. Clair gently guides the reader through the harsh realities of the corporate world's devious and unrelenting assault on the environment. And he does it with remarkable wit and optimisim, and a keen eye for the most relevant details. Chilling in its accumulation, *Been Brown So Long* is the definitive account of how our natural heritage has been, and is being, squandered by the lords of power and greed.
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Title: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair ISBN: 1902593774 Publisher: AK Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber ISBN: 1585422762 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq by Tariq Ali ISBN: 1859845835 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity by Robert Pollin ISBN: 1859846734 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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