The new ideas congealed during the 1970s

The ideas were inchoate during the ’60s. People were reading, but not yet comprehending the implications of . . .

The Waste Makers (1960); Silent Spring (1962); The Technological Society (1964); Abundance for What? (1964); The Myth of the Machine (1967); Paul Goodman’s The New Reformation (1969); E. J. Mishan’s The Costs of Economic Growth (1969); The Making of a Counter Culture (1969); The Subversive Science: Essays Toward an Ecology of Man (1969); Gary Snyder’s Earth House Hold (1969); The Greening of America (1970).

It all started to come together during the following decade; and by the 1980s manifested in truly “new paradigm” movements such as deep ecology, Green politics, social ecology, and bioregionalism.