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Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is part of nature and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Rachel Carson, CBS broadcast, 3 April 1963

The future of the environment, and the destructive impact of unregulated market-led growth on it, has become the defining socio-political issue of the twenty-first century. This book, by taking a holistic approach to the subject, will attract readers who are interested in the section on the origin, growth and social composition of bird-watching through to those who see capitalism on a suicidal course in its drive to exploit nature for profit.

Eddie Webster, Director of the Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

This is a refreshing, important and timely work: refreshing because of the personal perspective of the author; important because it goes beyond the personal to make a significant statement about current states of affairs in South Africa; timely because its message goes beyond (South) Africa – it is an urgent plea for universal environmental sanity.

Kai Horsthemke, Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg