How Much Should A Person Consume? Thinking Through The Environment

Based on research conducted over two decades, this accessible and deeply felt book provides a provocative comparative history of environmentalism in two large ecologically and culturally diverse democracies – India and the United States. Ramachandra Guha takes as his point of departure the dominant environmental philosophies in these two countries – identified as 'agrarianism' in India and 'wilderness thinking' in the United States.