I was aware of Rachael Carson's Silent Spring at its publication in the '60s but it fell short of the horror of nuclear war. I remember the first Earth Day in 1970 but that too is blotted out by Daniel Ellsberg's expose of the futility of Vietnam. Time for a refresher. site 
Mark Stoll is professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is working on an environmental history of capitalism. Stoll is author of two books, Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, and Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America, as well as chapters on the influence of religion on Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson. site
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By its very nature, consumption must grow for consumer capitalism to live. Stoll distinguishes industrial capitalism from its replacement 100 years ago by the consumption based version and its environmental consequences.
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The Trouble with Submarines: Statement for Union of Concerned Scientists, Freeman Dyson. mastodon