Hope s Horizon Three Visions For Healing The American Land 1st Edition by Chip Ward ISBN 978-1559639774 1559639776

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ISBN 10:  1559639776

ISBN 13:   978-1559639774 

Author:  Chip Ward

At a time of widespread environmental pessimism, Hope’s Horizon goes on an inspirational offensive. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, author Chip Ward tells of his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles and advocating pioneering, proactive strategies for healing the land.
Chip Ward’s three-year odyssey took him behind the scenes of efforts to reconnect fragmented habitats and “re-wild” the North American continent; the campaign to drain Lake Powell and restore Glen Canyon to its natural state; and the struggle to keep nuclear waste off Western Shoshone ancestral lands and, ultimately, to abolish all nuclear power and weapons. These movements, and the practical visionaries leading them, challenge readers with a new paradigm in which land is used in a spirit of collaboration with natural systems rather than domination of them. Broad in its sweep, Hope’s Horizon uses its topical subjects as springboards for exploring how we can redefine our place in the world while restoring damaged habitats, replenishing lost diversity, and abandoning harmful technologies.
Lively, literate, and free of the grimness that characterizes so much environmental writing, Hope’s Horizon will change the way readers see the world. It makes complicated concepts and issues accessible, and wild ideas compelling. And while the book’s starting point is a hard-nosed indictment of humanity’s failed stewardship of the earth, the stories that follow tell of catalytic optimism and ecological wisdom in the face of self-destructive habit and blind pride.

Table of contents: 

1. Prologue
2. Diving into Soup for Fun and Profit: Hubris and Progress in a Pothole

RECONNECTION
3. Keeping Track, Watching Hawks
4. It’s a Trickster World – Just Ask Coyote
5. Putting the Wolf at the Door
6. How to Fill Sky Islands with Parrots and Jaguars
7. Making the Map Meaningful
8. ReWilding Earth
9. I Used to Stomp on Grasshoppers, but Oysters Made Me Stop

RESTORATION
10. Flash Flood: Driven by Unquenchable Thirst into the Path of Danger
11. Flashback: From Suicidal Fool to Prophetic Hydro-Hero, John Wesley Powell’s Strange Trip Downriver
12. Dammed If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Dominy vs. Brower
13. Faux Flood: Diverting Disaster by Inviting Chaos

14. Flash Forward: The Draining Debate over Powell’s Dead Body
15. A Ridiculous Idea Whose Time Has Come
16. Fire in the Water: Salmon as Gift or Commodity
17. Following the Money Through Fear and Loathing
18. White Elephants in the Boneyard of Pride

ABOLITION
19. First, They Killed John Wayne
20. The Perpetual Peril of the Peaceful Atom
21. How the Evil Yellow Ore Returns
22. Activists vs. Enablers
23. A Glowing Account of Horatio Alger’s ABCs
24. Abolition and Precaution

25. Epilogue
26. Notes
27. Acknowledgments
28. Index

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