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Beyond
Earth Day
Fulfilling
the Promise
Gaylord Nelson
With Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak
Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
See new paperback edition for additional content
"You show me pollution and
I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people
who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the
public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution
is a subsidy."
— Robert
F. Kennedy Jr.
"The
economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not
the other way around."
—Gaylord
Nelson
Gaylord Nelson is known and respected
throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental
movement and creator of one of most successful and influential
public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global
stewardship: Earth Day.
In his eighties,
the former U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin presented a
timely and urgent message to the planet based on his decades
of passionate advocacy and scientific study. Clearly and compellingly
detailing our world's most crucial environmental concerns—from
species and habitat losses to global climate changes and population
control issues—Nelson offers his unique and inspirational
strategies for saving a fragile, living natural environment under
ever-increasing threat.
A book for
anyone who cares deeply about our environment and wants to know
what we can and must do now to save it, Beyond Earth Day
is a classic guide by one of the natural world's great defenders.
Excerpt:
"All economic activity is dependent upon that environment
and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil,
and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file
for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded,
dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into
bankruptcy with it."
—Gaylord
Nelson |
Gaylord
Nelson
was governor of Wisconsin from 1959 to 1963 and served in the
U.S. Senate as a Democrat from 1963 to 1981. Millions of Americans
joined him in observing the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970.
He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995 for his
contributions to the environmental protection movement and has
served as counselor to the Wilderness Society since 1981. Susan
Campbell is an award-winning environmental journalist and
adjunct college journalism professor. Paul Wozniak is
a market research analyst and environmental historian.
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November
2002
176 pp. 6 x 9
4 b/w photos, 4 drawings,
14 charts
See new paperback edition, ISBN 978-0-299-18044-7, for additional content.
—Paul
G. Hawken, Natural Capital Institute, author of The Ecology
of Commerce
Visit beyondearthday.com
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Review:
"After Wisconsinite Nelson began his 18-year stint as a senator
in 1963, he was shocked to discover how severe air and water
pollution had become. Recognizing that people everywhere shared
his concerns (he cites the infamous day in 1969 when the toxic
Cuyahoga River burst into towering flames), he thought, "Why
not organize a huge, grassroots protest about what was happening
to our environment?" Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970,
and in its aftermath crucial federal initiatives put a halt to
the worst offenses. But three decades later, thanks to a burgeoning
human population, myriad sources of toxic waste, corporate greed,
and general complacency, Nelson, as avid and well informed as
ever, observes that we face renewed and increasingly dire environmental
threats. Along with his coauthors, including Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., who provides a rousing foreword, the Earth Day founder presents
exceptionally lucid explanations of a host of current ecoissues,
and calls for a renewed effort to keep these potentially catastrophic
predicaments visible and their possible solutions viable through
education and citizen action."—Donna Seaman
Copyright
© American Library Association. All rights reserved
Of Related Interest:
 The Man from Clear Lake
Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson
Bill Christofferson
“His story is an inspiration.”—Al Gore
Winner of the 2007 Elizabeth A.
Steinberg Prize
 Beyond
Earth Day
Fulfilling
the Promise
Gaylord Nelson
With Susan Campbell and Paul A. Wozniak
Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Preface by Tia Nelson
“The life of the planet and all of its inhabitants have been positively affected by the extraordinary vision and work of Senator Gaylord Nelson. The remarkable agenda he put forth in 1970 is ever more salient today, his wisdom and words needed now more than ever.”—Paul G. Hawken, Natural Capital Institute, author of The Ecology of Commerce |
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