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Chronicled is the emergence of a particular UMc since the 1960s, an educated class with political knowledge strongly identified with the environmental movement. Although environmentalism had liberal beginnings, it is essentially conservative, reflecting the attitudes of the longtime wealthy who seek to protect their privileged status. Environmentalism attracts the new affluent class, which, seeking to protect its newly-won status, appreciates the slowdown in technological progress & material growth inherent in the cause. Ironically, the regulatory agencies that environmentalism has spawned have truly worked against the environment, as innovative experimentation has been slowed or halted, eg, in pest control. Proposed is a more pragmatic awareness of environmental stresses. D. Dunseath.

The rise of the West German environmental movement & the Green political party has been accompanied by theoretical developments that can be described as the "Greening of Marxism." In the late 1970s, a series of radical critiques of industrialism appeared (eg, see Amery, Carl, Natur als Politik: Die okologische Chance des Menschen [Nature and Politics: The Ecological Prospects of the People], Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1976). The development & main contents of these approaches are discussed in the framework of the West German theoretical debate on Marxism & ecology with reference to the changing patterns of ecological crises on the one hand & the emergence & development of a historical subject on the other. While ecosocialist authors provide a convincing critique of established Marxist interpretations of ecological problems, they are unable to find a way out of the dilemma of having to choose between a utopian or a reformist transformation model, both of which appear unconvincing; the ecosocialist analysis of the dynamics of industrialism itself predicts their ineffectiveness. AA

AbstractDuring the 1970s, conflict over land development restrictions in the Lake Tahoe Basin intensified. Funding of costly land purchases to preclude development emerged as a key problem in implementing timely and effective environmental protection. This timing coincided with pressures for land sales in and adjacent to urban "islands" in the public land "sea" of the West. One result was enactment of Public Law 95–586, co‐authored by Congressmen Santini and Burton. Proceeds from public land sales near Las Vegas, Nevada, would be dedicated to purchase of environmentally sensitive lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin some 450 miles to the north. This study traces formation of the temporary coalition among local interests and Congressional leaders that yielded a possible model for future public lands conflict resolution. It then reviews and critiques the first four years of experience with implementation of the land sales element of the act. It concludes by suggesting some "fine tuning" which, if accepted by environmentalist groups at the national and local level, would point toward the use of the Santini‐Burton approach as a source of funds to be used for environmental protection in other areas.