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Article: Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest.(Bookshelf)(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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FAITH IN NATURE
Environmentalism as Religious Quest
BY THOMAS R. DUNLAP
University of Washington Press, 206 pp., $24.95
As a political and social reform movement, environmentalism has stalled. Since the 1970s, environmental regulations, policies, and ideas have addressed some sources of ecological degradation and loss, but, argues Thomas R. Dunlap, environmentalism has yet to transform American society. To foster deeper change, says Dunlap, a distinguished historian of science, the movement needs to rethink its premises. American environmentalists are so committed to science as "the only acceptable source of understanding" that they ...