Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse AUTH-94270 ISBN13: 9780446556545

ISBN13: 9780446556545

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Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse AUTH-94270 ISBN13: 9780446556545In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First!. A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. The earth should come first was a doctrine that championed both biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the earth's full complement of