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The book is about the environmental crisis and how it has been growing over the past few decades. It covers different aspects of the crisis, from the environment to popular culture. The book is written in a way that makes it easy to understand, and it provides examples from both the environment and popular culture to help illustrate its points.
From Apocalypse to Way of Life is the most stirring, comprehensive account of the environmental crisis since Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring. In vivid prose, Frederick Buell illustrates the growing complexity of our ecological catastrophe as well as the suffocating political and cultural forces that blunt our response to it.
In some quarters, the prophecies of doom have produced a Chicken Little syndrome: If the sky has not yet fallen, why should we believe it will? Buell counters with the hard facts about contemporary threats to human health--deforestation freshwater depletion, ocean pollution, biodiversity loss, synthetic hormones--while tracing the expressions of environmental apocalypse in popular culture.
With passion and eloquence, From Apocalypse to Way of Life shows us the crisis that is staring us in the face, and explains why we can no longer see it.
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