This chapter addresses the intertwined problems of global environmental degradation and extreme inequality and injustice. It examines two narratives within American environmentalism that unwittingly exacerbate unequal access to environmental privilege and perpetuate unsustainable patterns of...

Local food, local work, local energy production – all are hallmarks of a resurgence of localism throughout contemporary environmental thought and action. The renaissance of localism might be seen as a retreat from the world’s global environmental problems. This paper maintains, however, that...

Two narratives have dominated the discussion of global warming in the United States. The first is the narrative of undue uncertainty, which has exaggerated the kinds and extent of uncertainty about whether humans are causing global warming. The second is the rational choice narrative, which has...