In this insightful and well-structured book, Wapner points clearly to the dilemmas and difficulties in modern environmentalism. To survive and succeed, it has had to draw boundaries between good and evil, right and wrong, and humans and nature. Yet it is these very borders that have led to polarised dreams of naturalism and mastery. The truth is that there is no such thing as a single environmentalist movement - it is highly variegated. It will have to find a way into, as Wapner puts it, a 'postnature age'.

Acknowledgments ix

Note on Photographs and Sources xi

1 Introduction 1

2 American Environmentalism and Boundaries 35

3 The Dream of Naturalism 53

4 The Dream of Mastery 79

5 The Great Vanishing: Into the Postnature World 107

6 The Nature of Wilderness 133

7 The Nature of Climate Change 169

8 Being an Environmentalist: Decisive Uncertainty and the Future of American Environmentalism 201

Notes 221

References 237

Index 249

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