Title The wild and the toxic : American environmentalism and the politics of health / Jennifer Thomson

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Friends of the Earth and environmental health -- You're murdering us : Love Canal and human health -- Biocentrism and the health of the wild -- Planetary health in the age of climate change Summary "Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health. Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present: the environmental lobby, environmental justice groups, radical environmentalism and bioregionalism, and climate justice activism. By focusing on health, environmentalists were empowered to intervene in the rise of neoliberalism, the erosion of the regulatory state, and the decimation of mass-based progressive politics. Yet, as this book reveals, an individualist definition of health ultimately won out over more communal understandings. Considering this turn from collective solidarity toward individual health helps explain the near paralysis of collective action in the face of planetary disaster."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 28, 2019) Subject Environmental health -- United States -- History Environmental health -- Political aspects -- United States Environmental health -- Philosophy Environmentalism -- United States -- History Gaia hypothesis -- History Environmental health. Politics, Practical. Environmental Health Politics politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. Politics, Practical Environmental health Environmental health -- Philosophy Environmental health -- Political aspects Environmentalism Gaia hypothesis SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469651651 1469651653 9781469651668 1469651661

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