Volume 23, Number 13 · August 5, 1976
The Sunny Side of the Street
By Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway
The Poverty of Power: Energy and the Economic Crisis
by Barry Commoner
Knopf, 314 pp., $10.00
Over the last years we have seen the growth of two important, middle-class political movements in the United States: one is centered on feminism, the other on the environment. The environmental movement springs from a long history. Its modern form has its origins in the industrial revolution, with the ideas of the Utilitarians. They argued for improved sanitation and environmental controls as essential accoutrements for industrial expansion. It was evidently necessary to ensure some level of physical well-being among factory workers, the better to increase productivity.
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