Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000
Acquaintance of the Earth
By Bill McKibben
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto
by Peter Huber
Basic Books, 224 pp., $25.00
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, by Amory Lovins, by L. Hunter Lovins
Little, Brown, 396 pp., $26.95
Teddy Roosevelt was the first national politician to care actively about what we now call the environment. The parks, refuges, monuments, and preserves he set aside in his terms in office have remained intact throughout the nation. And he acted not from political calculation, but from sheer love of the land. When McKinley died, the news reached him in the heart of the Adirondacks where he was busy climbing Mount Marcy, the Empire State's highest peak.
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