Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise

by Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan Campbell

    Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of one of the most successful and influential public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global Earth Day.
    Now in his eighties, Nelson delivers a timely and urgent message with the same eloquence with which he has articulated the nation’s environmental ills through the decades. He details the planet’s most critical concerns—from species and habitat losses to global climate changes and population growth. In outlining his strategy for planetary health, he inspires citizens to reassert the environment as a top priority.
    A book for anyone who cares deeply about our environment and wants to know what we can and must do now to save it, Beyond Earth Day is a classic guide by one of the natural world’s great defenders.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 4, 2002

Reviews

[Doreen Pfost · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have so much admiration for Gaylord Nelson that I wanted to like this book, but I found it generally discouraging and lacking in focus. Informed environmentalists will not find much here that they don't already know; and those who don't care about the environment will probably not be persuaded by this text. For those who want to learn more about specific environmental issues, I suppose this could serve as a broad outline, and a starting point for learning more -- elsewhere.

[Emmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

An eye opener for someone who have been ignoring the nature and my surroundings all these while. I got hooked right from the first page itself.

[Matthew Stolte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like many books written about the environment more than a few years ago, the contents are in a sense common knowledge. The urgency is present & remains. What is special about this book is Gaylord Nelson's point of view & involvement. Brief discussions of DDT, political action in Washington & environmental education are of interest. My copy (likely from one of my local library sales) is signed & rubber stamped with a quote from the end:

"Nations can recover from lost wars - witness Germany and Japan - but there is no recovery from a destroyed ecosystem."