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Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman Paperback – July 1, 1999

by Murray Bookchin (Author), Dave Foreman (Author), Steve Chase (Editor),
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Defending the Earth brings together two of the main protagonists in the heated deep vs. social ecology debate: eco-philosopher Murray Bookchin and Earth First! founder Dave Foreman. Bookchin and Foreman seek common ground and cooperatively explore their differing, though often overlapping, perspectives on a wide variety of issues.
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Bookchin and Foreman are the primary avatars of the two major schools of thought in the radical wing of the environmental movement, "social ecology" and "deep ecology," respectively. The former includes human needs in its larger visionp. 21 ; the latter argues for the intrinsic value of nature, claiming that "social" ecology defends "the creation of an instrumentalized world and its exploitation." As quickly becomes clear from the book, which is primarily the transcript of a public discussion between Bookchin and Foreman organized in November 1989 by New York City's Learning Alliance, this summation does injustice to the complexities of the arguments (particularly Bookchin's). Bookchin emerges as the more articulate debater, holding forth convincingly for a libertarian politics that would lead to a movement "neither anthropocentric nor misanthropic," in opposition to "deep" ecology positions that are "potentially . . . anti-social and anti-human." Regrettably, this volume has a bit too much "committed preaching to the converted" to be useful as a handbook for the newcomer to this debate, but for those already involved in the radical ecology movement it should fuel some arguments. Chase is a member of the South End Press collective.
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This monograph is the outcome of a 1989 cooperative forum sponsored by the Learning Alliance of New York City between environmental activists Foreman and Bookchin. Foreman is founder of Earth First! and author of Confessions of an Eco-Warrior ( LJ 3/1/91); Bookchin is founder of the Institute for Social Ecology and author of The Ecology of Freedom ( LJ 8/82). Among the issues they discussed were racism in the ecology movement and the influence of institutional forces on the environment. Although both men had been criticized for damaging the radical ecology movement by their unproductive and divisive infighting, the environmental community considered this forum a success because here they both stated their respect for diversity and agreed that there are opportunities for building alliances within the radical ecology movement. Recommended only for large ecology and environmental ethics collections.
- Eva Lautemann, DeKalb Coll. Lib., Clarkston, Ga.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ South End Press (July 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 147 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0896083829
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0896083820
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
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The 1989 debate between Bookchin and Foreman. This volume is worth the read both as a historical document and as a discussion about the dimensions and divisions in radical ecology. The issues, such as anthropocentrism vs. biocentrism, deep vs. social ecology vs. pragmatism within the political structure, these are still relevant today. If anything, the radical dimension of environmental movement has moved more to the left compared to back then, more, let's say, in Bookchin's direction, although not embracing all-out eco-anarchism and libertarian municipalism.
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Andreas Petofi
5.0 out of 5 stars Dave Foreman represents everything that is wrong about the environmental movement!
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I really enjoyed this book, because it represents two very different views about the environmental movement. I'm a member of an environmental group myself, HEARTWOOD, which is located in Midwest America. Needless to say, I support the late Murray Bookchin's views that environmental issues cannot be viewed in isolation to other issues. I personally brought this up in a recent Heartwood meeting, that environmental activism has too often been portrayed as the issue of the upper middle class Caucasians, while they ignore issues of war, economic justice and the exploitative nature of capitalism. We need to enlarge our views as the late, great Judi Bari would advocate.

I would say that EARTH FIRST is doing better without Dave Foreman, whose almost racist and xenophobic views bring more harm to the environmental movement than help. We need an inclusive base to the environmental movement, and not an exclusive base as Foreman would advocate.
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