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This is Our Land - Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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This is Our Land - Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
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In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the
environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is
Our Land, Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he
describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups -
in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary
citizens fought to solve environmental problems. Here are stories
of common people who, confronting environmental threats to the
health and safety of their families and communities, bonded
together to protect their interests. These stories include
successes and failures as citizens learned how to participate in
their democracy and redefined what participation meant. Equally
important, Ferguson describes how several laws passed in the
seventies - such as the National Environmental Policy Act - gave
citizens the opportunity and the tools to fight for the
environment. These laws gave people a say in the decisions that
affected the world around them, including the air they breathed,
the water they drank, the land on which they made their living, and
the communities they called home. Moreover, Ferguson shows that
through their experiences over the course of the 1970s, '80s, and
'90s, these citizen activists broadened their understanding of
"this is our land" to mean "this is our community, this is our
country, this is our democracy, and this is our planet." As they
did, they redefined political participation and expanded the
ability of citizens to shape their world. Challenging us to see
activism in a new way, This is Our Land recovers the stories of
often-unseen citizens who have been vitally important to the
environmental movement. It will inspire readers to confront
environmental threats and make our world a safer, more just, and
more sustainable place to live.
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