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Speaking of Earth : environmental speeches that moved the world / edited with commentary and biographies by Alon Tal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006Description: xx, 272 pages : portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813537266
  • 9780813537269
  • 0813537274
  • 9780813537276
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.72 22
Contents:
The publication of Silent Spring was neither the beginning nor the end of that struggle / Rachel Carson -- A land without wildflowers will be a hotel, not a homeland / Yizhar Smilansky -- If man is to survive, the ocean is not dispensable / Thor Heyerdahl -- We do not have to believe in the inevitability of environmental catastrophe to accept the possibility of such a catastrophe / Maurice Strong -- We are the first, but we are not likely to be the last / Lois Gibbs -- Nuclear weapons are morally indefensible / David Lange -- I too am one of those who cannot live without wild things / Mongosuthu G. Buthulezi -- The question now is simply whether we control science of whether science will control us / Mostafa Tolba -- The destruction of our rain forest affects not only the Brazilian people, but in fact all the people of the planet / Chico Mendes -- The prospect of climate change is a new factor in human affairs / Margaret Thatcher -- If we want to transform society in an ecological way, we must transform ourselves / Petra Kelly -- Our Mother Earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility / the Dalai Lama -- The sermon / David Brower -- A dead ecological war in which no blood is spilled but people die all the time / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- We venture into realms that belong to God, and to God Alone / Charles, Prince of Wales -- To commit a crime against the Natural World is a sin / Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeow -- It's all about taming greed / Ian Kiernan -- Sharing and exchange, the basis of our humanity and our ecological survival has been redefined as a crime / Vandana Shiva -- Problems are not enough in themselves to create a momentum for change / Karl-Henrik Robert -- The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder / Wangari Maathai --
Nuclear weapons are morally indefensible / David Lange, New Zealand, 1985.
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Includes speech by a New Zealander.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The publication of Silent Spring was neither the beginning nor the end of that struggle / Rachel Carson -- A land without wildflowers will be a hotel, not a homeland / Yizhar Smilansky -- If man is to survive, the ocean is not dispensable / Thor Heyerdahl -- We do not have to believe in the inevitability of environmental catastrophe to accept the possibility of such a catastrophe / Maurice Strong -- We are the first, but we are not likely to be the last / Lois Gibbs -- Nuclear weapons are morally indefensible / David Lange -- I too am one of those who cannot live without wild things / Mongosuthu G. Buthulezi -- The question now is simply whether we control science of whether science will control us / Mostafa Tolba -- The destruction of our rain forest affects not only the Brazilian people, but in fact all the people of the planet / Chico Mendes -- The prospect of climate change is a new factor in human affairs / Margaret Thatcher -- If we want to transform society in an ecological way, we must transform ourselves / Petra Kelly -- Our Mother Earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility / the Dalai Lama -- The sermon / David Brower -- A dead ecological war in which no blood is spilled but people die all the time / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- We venture into realms that belong to God, and to God Alone / Charles, Prince of Wales -- To commit a crime against the Natural World is a sin / Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeow -- It's all about taming greed / Ian Kiernan -- Sharing and exchange, the basis of our humanity and our ecological survival has been redefined as a crime / Vandana Shiva -- Problems are not enough in themselves to create a momentum for change / Karl-Henrik Robert -- The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder / Wangari Maathai --

Nuclear weapons are morally indefensible / David Lange, New Zealand, 1985.

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