ANGELS BY THE RIVER: A MEMOIR
Book ID/图书代码： 03008014B74072
English Summary/英文概要： Angels by the River follows James Gustave Speth’s unlikely path—from a Southern boyhood to his career as an influential mainstream environmentalist to his current system-changing activism.
In this compelling memoir, Speth explores the issues, and realities, that have shaped the nation since the 1950s, and that turned an “ultimate insider” into someone willing to be arrested in front of the White House.
Born and raised in a town where both the best and worst of the South shone through—a town that eventually became the scene of South Carolina’s horrific Orangeburg Massacre—Speth explores how the civil rights movement and the South’s agrarian roots influenced his academic career at Yale and later work in the heyday of the environmental movement, when he helped launch two landmark and influential environmental groups—the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute—advise the White House on climate and other emerging issues, and lead the UN’s development efforts around the globe.
Speth fought to create and uphold the nation’s toughest environmental laws, but now believes a new environmentalism is needed to confront today’s challenges. The advancing climate crisis cannot be addressed, he warns, as long as we remain fixated on endless growth and consumption, corporate profits, increasing the incomes of the well-to-do, neglecting those just getting by, and helping abroad only modestly.
An American tale, in all its complexity, Speth’s memoir is an inspiration—especially for readers contemplating how to make a difference in an increasingly complex world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《河边天使》一书讲述了James Gustave Speth不同寻常的人生轨迹——从南部的孩童时代到具有影响力的环保主义者，再到目前的制度变革激进派。
在这部扣人心弦的回忆录中，作者Speth探讨了20世纪50年代起最这个国家产生深远影响的各种问题和现实状况。
Speth出生并成长于一个善恶交织的南部小镇，骇人听闻的南卡罗来纳州奥兰治堡大屠杀就发生这个小镇。Speth探讨了民权运动与南部的平均地权主义是如何影响他在耶鲁的职业生涯及之后环保运动盛世时期的工作的，Speth协助发起了两个里程碑式的环保组织——“自然资源保护协会”和“世界资源研究所”，向白宫提出了有关气候及其他问题的建议，并促进了联合国在全球的发展。
Speth费劲千辛万苦，创建了全国最为严厉的环保法，但现在却认为需要一套新的环保主义来面对当今的挑战。他警告说，如果我们一直追求无止境的增长和消耗，只关注企业利润，而忽视那些得过且过的行为，那么不断加剧的气候危机将永远难以解决。
Speth的回忆录会为读者带来许多灵感和启示，尤其是那些正在思考如何改变愈加复杂的世界的读者们。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“Gus Speth 是我们这个时代伟大的环保主义者，这本书记录的不仅是他的人生旅程，也是他的心路旅程。这本书会令你从新的角度思考许多事情。”——Bill McKibben，《流浪的家》作者， 350.org创办者
“Gus Speth 利用他的天赋正视我们正面临的制度改革，力图寻求一套全新的、可能的解决方案；他的回忆录思想深刻，充满希望，积极向上。”——Gar
Alperovitz，“合作民主”联合创办人，《接下来我们该做什么》作者。
"Gus Speth is the great environmentalist of our age, and this book chronicles not just his life’s journey, but his mind’s. It will make you think anew about many things, including where change comes from!"--Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home and founder of 350.org
"Gus Speth offers the gift of his own struggle to confront the systemic challenge we face as an example to anyone, young or old, seeking to find a new and possible way forward. His deeply thoughtful book is marvelous, hopeful, and above all life-affirming."--Gar Alperovitz, cofounder of The Democracy Collaborative and author of What Then Must We Do?
About the Author/作者介绍： James Gustave Speth 曾担任耶鲁大学森林及环保研究学院主任，同时也是“世界资源研究所”的创办者兼主席，“自然资源保护协会”的联合创办人。此外，他还曾担任联合国发展项目管理者、联合国发展组织主席、美国乔治城大学法学教授、美国环境质量协会主席。目前，他任教于佛蒙特州法学院，并担任“合作民主”的高级职员。他也是Demos组织的高级职员，Tellus研究所的副院士，荣获过许多环保奖项。他曾著有：《美国可能性：新经济宣言》、获奖著作《世界边缘的桥梁：资本主义》、以及《朝霞似火:美国与全球环境危机》等书。
James Gustave "Gus" Speth is the former dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, founder and president of the World Resources Institute, and cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has also been administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, chair of the U.N. Development Group, professor of law at Georgetown University, and chair of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality in the Carter administration. He currently teaches at Vermont Law School, and is a senior fellow at the Democracy Collaborative where he is co-chair of the Next System Project. He is also distinguished senior fellow with Demos, associate fellow with the Tellus Insitute, and the recipient of numerous environmental awards. His previous books include America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy, and the award-winning The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment.
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