A panoramic survey of grassroots environmentalism in Israel, the
former Czechoslovakia, and the United States featuring profiles of
key citizen activists.
The Environmental Crusaders highlights citizens in Israel, the
former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious
ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and an
accountable society. The men and women portrayed here confronted
the threat of nuclear contamination, chemical waste and pollution,
exposure to garbage and industrial refuse, untreated sewage, and
other serious dangers. Drawing upon 140 interviews, Myron Peretz
Glazer and Penina Migdal Glazer portray the personal transformation
of those who moved from uninvolved residents to political activists
working collectively to improve the quality of community life. In
the process, they show how environmentalism is adapting to the new
global economy.
An important feature of this book is its comparative approach.
While the United States has a long tradition of environmental
activism and a well-developed infrastructure to support
environmental groups, Israel represents a society where security
issues, economic development, and absorption of immigrants have
superseded environmental concerns. A small group of early Israeli
activists has recently been joined by others in forming a new and
still fragile environmental movement. A parallel environmental
group in the Israeli Arab community combines similar ecological
concerns with a larger quest for equality and social justice. In a
different national context, environmental dissidence has resulted
in dramatic revolutionary change in Czechoslovakia. The book
recounts the role of environmental activists in bringingdown the
Communist government in 1989 as well as post-Velvet revolutionary
developments.
The Glazers argue that grassroots activists in all three
countries have become the bedrock of an international social
movement to expose and respond to environmental threats to their
communities. Following on their pathbreaking work on
whistleblowers, the Glazers show the power of personal courage in
the face of government and corporate bureaucracies that fail to
meet our collective needs.
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