Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in by Richard D. Besel,Bernard K. Duffy
By Richard D. Besel,Bernard K. Duffy
The written works of nature’s top advocates—from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to call a few—have been the topic of many texts, yet their speeches stay particularly unknown or unexamined. Green Voices goals to redress this example. in any case, by way of the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental circulation, their speeches shaped a part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectancies, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. regardless of having in universal a definitively rhetorical concentration, the contributions during this publication mirror various tools and methods. a few pay attention to a unmarried speaker and a unmarried speech. Others examine a number of speeches. a few are historic in orientation, whereas others are extra theoretical. In different phrases, this assortment examines the vast sweep people environmental background from the point of view of our most famed and influential environmental figures.
Richard D. Besel is affiliate Professor of communique reports at California Polytechnic kingdom collage, San Luis Obispo and coeditor (with Jnan A. Blau) of Performance on Behalf of the Environment.
Bernard ok. Duffy is Professor and division Chair of communique reports at California Polytechnic nation college, San Luis Obispo and coeditor (with Richard W. Leeman) of The Will of a humans: A serious Anthology of serious African American Speeches.
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