03251nam 2200685 450 991078688860332120230803204359.01-62349-177-0(CKB)3710000000222801(EBL)1769078(SSID)ssj0001334492(PQKBManifestationID)11873613(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334492(PQKBWorkID)11272040(PQKB)11375806(MiAaPQ)EBC1769078(OCoLC)890674548(MdBmJHUP)muse36917(Au-PeEL)EBL1769078(CaPaEBR)ebr10910257(CaONFJC)MIL638025(OCoLC)888749021(EXLCZ)99371000000022280120140830h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFacing it epiphany and apocalypse in the new nature /M. Jimmie Killingsworth ; photographs by Mary Ann JacobFirst edition.College Station, Texas :Texas A&M University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (338 p.)The Seventh Generation : Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New NatureDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-06774-0 1-62349-145-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Overture. End of a world -- Influence and confluence: family, nature, war -- Ecology then: the lake of tears -- Dispelling dejà vu, part one -- Dispelling dejà vu, part two -- Defying apocalypse -- Apocalypse redux and the fate of sustainability -- No illusions, no fantasy, no melodrama: the legacy of Rachel Carson -- Epiphany matters -- Imagination wild and tame: the smell of money -- The presence of roadkill -- Reprise. World's end: seeing and sustenance.Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning readers in waves of ecological angst, M. Jimmie Killingsworth seeks alternative images and episodes to invoke presence without crippling the hope for survival and sustenance in places and communities of value.In deft, highly accessible prose, Killingsworth takes the reader through a Cold-War childhood, an adolescence colored by anti-war and ecological activism, and an adulthood darkened by terrorismSeventh generation (Series)EnvironmentalistsUnited StatesBiographyCollege teachersUnited StatesBiographyEnvironmentalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryEnvironmentalismUnited StatesHistory21st centuryEnvironmentalistsCollege teachersEnvironmentalismHistoryEnvironmentalismHistory363.70092Killingsworth M. Jimmie549950Jacob Mary AnnMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786888603321Facing it3840061UNINA