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<p>The radical underground environmental movement, Earth First! emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. Martha F. Lee provides a profound inquiry into the movement's apocalyptic doctrine and into its beliefs and strategies, which include some spectacular, dangerous, and often illegal activities.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>A fascinating premisethat the radical environmental group Earth First! can be understood in religious terms, as a millenarian movementgets an unfortunately thin treatment in Lee's study. Millenarian and apocalyptic movements anticipate the end of the era, with the former looking toward the coming of a new age, the latter envisioning the end of the world. Earth First! fits dramatically into this framework, with its adherents predicting environmental collapse: as Earth First!er Christopher Manes writes in Green Rage, ``The understanding of radical environmentalism... begins at the end, the end of the world as we know it, the meltdown of biological diversity that our industrial culture has recklessly set in motion.'' Lee defines Earth First!'s social activists, such as Mike Roselle, as millenarians because they believe i

Author

Lee, Martha F. (martha Frances) , 1962-

Publisher

Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815603658

Subjects

Social Science, Anthropology, Social_sciences