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The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism

 

Thursday, November 15, 2018

4:00 – 5:00p.m.

The Huntington

Ahmanson Room, Botanical Center

 

Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a radical sort of environmental activist movement emerged in the 1980s which subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Adherents used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Professor Keith Makoto Woodhouse (History and Environmental Policy and Culture at Northwestern University) will explore the tensions between radical environmentalism and humanism, social justice, and economic inequality. Part of a series from the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West exploring the environmental history of the modern American West.

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