Media type Print (hardcover) Originally published 1962 | ISBN 978-0060903633 | |
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Pages 285 (first edition)
305 (second edition) Similar Murray Bookchin books, Anarchism books, Other books | ||
Our Synthetic Environment is a 1962 book by Murray Bookchin, published under the pseudonym "Lewis Herber".
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Summary
Bookchin warns of the dangers of pesticide use, and espouses an ecological and environmentalist worldview.
Influence
Our Synthetic Environment was one of the first books of the modern period in which an author espoused an ecological and environmentalist worldview. It predates Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson, a more widely known book on the same topic widely credited as starting the environmental movement.
References
Our Synthetic Environment Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA