Books for the 21st Century Environmentalist
Mashable has kindly published my list of recommended books for the “21st Century Environmentalist.” It’s interesting to see how environmental literature has changed from decade to decade. It began with the romantics: folks like Wordsworth, Rousseau, Thoreau, Gilbert White, Muir. These guys — often mixing poetry, philosophy, and naturalist observation — more or less championed the goodness of nature or wilderness. In the early 20th Century, we see folks like Muir and Roosevelt