House Organ 1

The Justifiers: A Critique of Julian Simon, Stephan Schmidheiny, and Paul Hawken on Capitalism and Nature

By Joel Kovel 3

Mike Davis’ Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the
Imagination of Disaster
Introduction to the Ecology of Character Assassination
By Roger Keil and Ute Lehrer 37
The Politics of Urbanism: Mike Davis and the Neo- Conservatives
By Robert A. Beauregard 40
LA Story: Visions of Los Angeles’ Other Futures
By Roger Keil and Ute Lehrer 45
LA Exponential: The Case against Southern California Exceptionalism
By Ted Steinberg 52
Reflections on Ecology of Fear
By David Harvey 59
The Ecology of Fear Meets German Angst
By Jens Sambale 63
Fear of Ecology?: The Importance of an Urban
Environmental Analysis and Movement in the Re-
Envisioning of Los Angeles
By Robert Gottlieb 69

Of OncoMice and Female/Men: Donna Haraway on
Cyborg Ontology
By Kate Soper 73

American Landscapes

Settling Westchester: The Value of Place
By Robert Chapman 81

On the Social Reappropriation of Nature
By Enrique Leff 89
Land Degradation in Honduras: A Challenge to an
Ecological Marxism
By Jon Hellin 105

Evolutionary Psychology
By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 127

Capitalism and Nature

Solid Waste Management at a Crossroads: Recycling on the
Treadmill of Production
By Maarten de Kadt 131

Ripples In Clio’s Pond

The Serengeti: Reflections on Human Membership in the Community of Life
By J. Donald Hughes 161

Darinda G. Dallmeyer and Albert F. Ike, A, eds.:
Environmental Ethics and the Global Marketplace
By John Barry 169
Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees: Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
By Jean-Guy Vaillancourt 171
Robert Costanza, Olman Segura, and Joan Martínez-Alier,
eds.: Getting Down to Earth: Practical Applications of Ecological Economics
By John Ferguson 174
Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne, eds.: Misunderstanding
Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and
Technology
By Les Levidow 176
Daniel R. White: Postmodern Ecology Communication, Evolution, and Play
By Kerry S. Martin 179

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