Speaking of Earth : environmental speeches that moved the world /
Tal, Alon,1960-
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
c2006.
The publication of Silent spring was neither the beginning nor the end of that struggle / Rachel Carson -- A land without wildflowers will be a hotel, not a homeland / Yizhar Smilansky -- If man is to survive, the ocean is not dispensable / Thor Heyerdahl -- We do not have to believe in the inevitability of environmental catastrophe to accept the possibility of such a catastrophe / Maurice Strong -- We are the first, but we are not likely to be the last / Lois Gibbs -- Nuclear weapons are morally indefensible / David Lange -- I too am one of those who cannot live without wild things / Mongosuthu G. Buthulezi -- The question now is simply whether we control science or whether science will control us / Mostafa Tolba -- The destruction of our rain forest affects not only the Brazilian people, but in fact all the people of the planet / Chico Mendes -- The prospect of climate change is a new factor in human affairs / Margaret Thatcher -- If we want to transform society in an ecological way, we must transform ourselves / Petra Kelly -- Our mother earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility -- The sermon / David Brower -- A deadly ecological war in which no blood is spilled but people die all the time / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- We venture into realms that belong to God, and to God alone / Charles, Prince of Wales -- To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin / Ecumenical Patiarch Bartholomew -- It's all about taming greed / Ian Kiernan -- Sharing and exchange, the basis of our humanity and our ecological survival has been redefined as a crime / Vandana Shiva -- Problems are not enough in themselves to create a momentum for change / Karl-Henrik Robert -- The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder / Wangari Maathai.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Environmental literature.
Environmentalism
Nature