Volume 37, Number 10 · June 14, 1990
Prophet in Kentucky
By Bill McKibben
BOOKS BY WENDELL BERRY
What Are People For?
North Point, 210 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Collected Poems, 1957–1982
North Point, 268 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Hidden Wound
North Point, 137 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship
edited by Wendell Berry, edited by Wes Jackson, edited by Bruce Colman
North Point, 250 pp., $12.50 (paper)
Standing By Words
North Point, 213 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
North Point, 146 pp., $8.95 (paper)
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Sierra Club, 228 pp., $7.95 (paper)
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
North Point, 304 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Home Economics
North Point, 192 pp., $9.95 (paper)
A Continuous Harmony
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 182 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Recollected Essays, 1965–1980
North Point, 340 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Remembering
North Point, 124 pp., $14.95
A Place on Earth: Revision
North Point, 317 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Earth Day provided the occasion for publishing dozens of environmental books, most of them along the lines of Fifty Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Planet. The hints these books contain—use Tupperware instead of plastic wrap, separate your bottles, put a brick in the toilet—are unexceptionable. But unfortunately, if scientists are at all correct about the magnitude of the perils we face, then the changes eventually demanded of us will not be so simple. If, for instance, the fossil fuel era must come rapidly to a close, then the changes required are likely to be far more dramatic and difficult.
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