Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991
The Mountain Hedonist
By Bill McKibben
BOOKS BY GARY SNYDER DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Practice of the Wild
North Point, $10.95 (paper)
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
North Point, $9.95 (paper)
Myths and Texts
New Directions, $5.95 (paper)
Turtle Island
New Directions, $5.95 (paper)
Axe Handles
North Point, $7.50 (paper)
Earth House Hold
New Directions, $6.95 (paper)
The Old Ways
City Lights, $4.50 (paper)
He Who Hunted Birds in His Father's Village: The Dimensions of a Haida Myth
Grey Fox, $5.95 (paper)
The Real Work: Interviews and Talks
edited by Scott McLean
New Directions, $8.95 (paper)
Passage Through India
Grey Fox, $6.95 (paper)
We talk in a lazy shorthand when we speak about 'the environment' and 'the environmental movement' as if there were a single, obvious program for the planet's protection. But the environmental movement is far broader and more diverse than any of the 'progressive' campaigns that preceded it, since no single policy can deal with problems as diverse in scale and scope as the greenhouse effect and the extinction of the spotted owl, the pollution along Louisiana's Cancer Alley and the destruction of the tropical rain forests. No one expects economists to put together programs, or even philosophies, that simultaneously increase the market share of Remington razors and redress the global balance of trade. Yet the environment is a far more complex subject than the economy.
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