Plundering Paradise
The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines

 

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Plundering Paradise
The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines

by Robin Broad (Author)
by John Cavanagh (Author)
Barbara Ehrenreich (Foreword)

 

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ISBN: 9780520089211

 

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This portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. It is an inspiring account of how peasants, fishermen and labourers have united to halt the plunder of their resources.


This portrait of environmental politics chronicles the devastating destruction of the Philippine countryside and reveals how ordinary men and women are fighting back. Travelling through a land of lush rainforests, the authors have recorded the experiences of the people whose livelihoods are disappearing along with their country's natural resources. The result is an inspiring account of how peasants, fishermen and other labourers have united to halt the plunder and to improve their lives. These people do not debate global warming - they know that their very lives depend on the land and oceans - so they block logging trucks, protest open-pit mining and replant trees. In a country where nearly two-thirds of the children are impoverished, the reclaiming of natural resources is offering young people hope for a future.


 

ISBN 520089219
ISBN13 9780520089211
Publisher University of California Press
Format Paperback
Publication date 29/08/1994
Pages 226
Weight (grammes) 371
Published in United States
Height (mm) 229
Width (mm) 152

Foreword, by Barbara Ehrenreich Acknowledgments Generation Lost Nature's Revenge The Last Rainforests "The First Environmentalists" Life Along the Death March The Wall Hearts and Minds "The Bastards of Bataan" From Plunder to Sustainability

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