 Summer 2001 American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Telephone number: Fax number:
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Readings in Nature, Ecology, and Politics
Zachary Smith, The Environmental Policy Paradox, (2000), Chapter 1 "Ecosystem Interdependence"--states the laws of ecology Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," (1968), Science 162 Arundhati Roy, "The Greater Common Good," (1999), Frontline, 16--a passionate statement by an Indian novelist about the harm done by the Sardar Sarovar dam, available at www.the-hindu.com Jan Dizard, Going Wild: Hunting, Animal Rights, and the Contested Meaning of Nature (revised ed. 1999)--the story of a controversial solution to the explosion of the deer population at the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts Henry Thoreau, Walden (1965 edition, which also includes text of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience") John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949) John McPhee, The Pine Barrens (1967)--McPhee has written extensively on the interactions between human beings and nature; this essay focuses on the lives and wildlife of the inhabitants of the New Jersey southern shore Annie Dillard, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) Gary Snyder, No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1992) David Brower, ed., with text by Robinson Jeffers, Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast (1965) Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1985)--fictional account of ecological sabotage; a clarion call to civil disobedience in the style of Earth First!
Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993)--novel
set in 2048: ecological wisdom, class and racial diversity, and
pacifist values debated against the backdrop of a battle between
the Los Angeles and San Francisco lifestyles
--Betty Zisk is a political scientist and a longtime
Quaker and Green Party activist. 
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