Has anyone read this? Seems a bit like Worster's "Nature's Economy" - Bill McKibben covers romantics, imperialists, mechanism, and the crucial shift from thinking about nature as a spiritual subject to considering it a valid object of scientific, empirical study. But this book comes with some modern updates to Worster's study - the incorporation of significant people who are not dead white guys, including Alice Walker as well as Al Gore (ok, he is a white guy, but he's still alive and active in shaping current environmental thinking). It looks like he's very interested in showing the internal conflicts in the field of environmental policy-making and demonstrating that activists do not now and have not really ever agreed on what the "right way" of thinking about the environment is. Plus, McKibben even specifies right there in the title ("American Earth") that this is going to be a history of AMERICAN environmental thought...something I wish Worster had done.
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