Table of Contents
House Organ
1Essays
The Justifiers: A Critique of Julian Simon, Stephan Schmidheiny, and Paul Hawken on Capitalism and Nature
By Joel Kovel 3
Symposium
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
Nature Prospects
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
Ecology and Development
On the Social Reappropriation of Nature
By Enrique Leff 89
Land Degradation in Honduras: A Challenge to an
Ecological Marxism
By Jon Hellin 105
Eppur´ Si Muove
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
Book Reviews
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
Book Note 181