{"product_id":"born-under-a-bad-sky-notes-from-the-dark-side-of-the-earth-9781904859703","title":"Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"Movement reporting on a par with Mailer's \u003ci\u003eArmies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\"--Peter Linebaugh, author of \u003ci\u003eMagna Carta Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Many-Headed Hydra\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHold on tight as you open the pages of \u003ci\u003eBorn Under a Bad Sky\u003c\/i\u003e and follow journalist Jeffrey St. Clair as he leads you through a landscape of horrors and wonders, scenery all the more strange because the setting is our own bruised world, in our own fraught era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter a world that is part Bosch and part Bierstadt. This is not only a savage philippic against the foulers of Nature's temple, but--and this is where St. Clair worthily follows in the tracks of Stegner and Abbey--an homage to the planet itself. There is beauty as well as horror here. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese urgent dispatches are from the frontlines of the war on the Earth. Gird yourself for a visit to a glowing nuclear plant in the backwoods of North Carolina, to the heart of Cancer Alley where chemical companies hide their toxic enterprise behind the dark veil of Homeland Security, and to the world's most contaminated place, the old H-bomb factory at Hanford, which is leaking radioactive poison into the mighty Columbia River. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith unflinching prose, St. Clair confronts the White Death in Iraq, the environmental legacy of a war that will keep on killing decades after the bombing raids have ended. He conjures up the environmental villains of our time, from familiar demons like James Watt and Dick Cheney to more surprising figures, including Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (father of the cancer bond) and the Nobel laureate Al Gore, whose pieties on global warming are sponsored by the nuclear power industry. The mainstream environmental movement doesn't escape indictment. Bloated by grants from big foundations, perched in high-rent office towers, leashed to the neoliberal politics of the Democratic Party, the big green groups have largely acquiesced to the crimes against nature that St. Clair so vividly exposes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll is not lost. From the wreckage of New Orleans to the imperiled canyons of the Colorado, a new green resistance is taking root. The fate of the grizzly and the ancient forests of Oregon hinge on the courage of these green defenders. This book is also a salute to them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is what the true West looks like. It's not for the faint of heart.\"--Susan Davis, author \u003ci\u003eSpectacular Nature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written!\"--Clancy Sigal, author \u003ci\u003eGoing Away\u003c\/i\u003e, screenwriter \u003ci\u003eFrida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who else can combine Rachel Carson's wisdom, I.F. Stone's erudition and Edward Abbey's sass?\"--Michael Colby, editor of \u003ci\u003eBroadsides\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\"The Upton Sinclair of Oregon City.\"--Jeff Baker, \u003ci\u003eThe Oregonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning, passionate book that takes you into the world where nature's beauty is being savaged by the corrupt industrial-political complex.\"--Kirkpatrick Sale, author \u003ci\u003eAfter Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBorn Under a Bad Sky\u003ci\u003e provides a sense of hope as an antidote to the despair over what humans have done to the environment.\"--Paul Krassner, editor \u003ci\u003eThe Realist\u003c\/i\u003e, author \u003ci\u003eOne Hand Jerking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781904859703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 6.09w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Oregon Book Awards - Finalist","brand":"Jeffrey St Clair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51299106848949,"sku":"9781904859703","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e2263f0c-f909-4c2c-b3c8-635fc850e64f.jpg?v=1751985323","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/born-under-a-bad-sky-notes-from-the-dark-side-of-the-earth-9781904859703","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}