Book Description
Like canaries in a mine, native peoples throughout the globe are facing extinction due to the greed of mining and oil companies. Their plight sounds the alarm to all those concerned about the prospect of global warming, genocide, and eco-disasters of all stripe. Building a multi-racial, transnational movement to drastically limit resource extraction and creating an new environmental ethic is the best hope. These stories show how it's being done.
About the author
Al Gedicks's New Resource Wars (0-89608-462-0) Sales 400 is a classic book in environmental and Native studies. Gedicks is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, and a longtime activist in environmental and Native solidarity movements in the upper Midwest. he is executive director of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council and director of the Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy.
