Today's media landscape is saturated by the proliferation of so-called environmentalist movements. It can be hard to find your bearings amidst such profusion.

Especially since radically opposing theories coexist in this space regarding the proper role of nature, the environment, development, humankind, and technology in the world, resulting in often highly different policies. The goal of this book is to survey environmental thought in all its variety, rehabilitate some of its unjustly forgotten representatives, and bring nuance to the significance of others that are overexposed in the media, in order to better understand the actual stakes at hand.