Review of Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature, by Theodore Steinberg
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The Shrinking of Science
Reductionism is making science ever less relevant to our lives.
A Land Reform Manifesto
A new campaign is born
The Jaws of Victory
Review of: The River Stops Here: How One Man’s Battle to Save His Valley Changed the Fate of California. Ted Simon, Random House, New York.
Monotonous Monopoly
The superstores are changing the world to suit themselves
The Church Must Take Sides
Britain needs a liberation theology movement
If Not Now, When?
There are no excuses for not joining the protest against the Newbury bypass
Dispossessed without trace
The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people
Toxic Shock
The Government’s official position is that we should pour our hazardous waste down the drain.
Murder in the Amazon
Nearly all the mahogany leaving Brazil has been taken, illegally, from protected reserves
Subversive Genius
Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal
The Scattering of the Dead
A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people
The Maasai and the Mercedes Men
A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers
Back to 1662
The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago
A Private Order Called Public Order
Environmentalism is at the vanguard of Britain’s movements for political change
Moses in the Wilderness
One man’s story might hold the key to the survival of the Maasai
Keepers of the Artificial Wilderness
In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed
The Astromancer
Did Ledumen, the celebrated Samburu prophet, know I was coming to visit him three months before I decided to do so?
Wishful Thinking
Environmentalism is yet to inspire a great novel
Fire in a Box
Britain’s protest movements have emerged in response to the enclosure of the land, the mind and political power. They are seeking to recover the freedom all of us have lost