Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence
1994; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 32; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.32-2367
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
ResumoPrefaceSome months after Parallax Press' 1991 publication of Petra Kelly's The Anguish of Tibet, we reached an agreement with Ms. Kelly to publish a book of her writings about ecology, feminism, nonviolence, human rights, North-South relations, and a host of related topics. She forwarded to us more than one thousand pages of speeches, interviews, and articles, which editor Andrew Cooper began organizing into this book.In September 1992, when Petra Kelly, Gert Bastian, Stephen Batchelor, and I met over dinner in Berlin to discuss the book's development, Petra gave me another thousand pages of documents. We talked at length about Tibet, the rise of neo-Nazism in Germany, and many other topics, and shared our mutual excitement about the book's progress and the work needed to complete it. She also asked in great detail about my wife's brother, who had just been in an auto accident. Petra was always extremely thoughtful and concerned, not only about the big issues, but about everyday people and events. She and Gert gave us a box of Berlin chocolates, and also a piece of the Berlin Wall, which she herself was so instrumental in bringing down.In less than a month, Petra and Gert were found dead, having been shot in their small house outside of Bonn. Although there has never been an extensive investigation, official or unofficial, the authorities concluded that Gert shot Petra, then himself. I continue to find that difficult to believe or accept, as they both had been so energetic and forward-looking such a short time before.After a period of mourning and reflection, we at Parallax Press decided to go ahead and complete this project, with the help of many of Petra's close friends and colleagues around the world, including Charlene Spretnak, Sara Parkin, Claire Greensfelder, Cora Weiss, Peter Matthiessen, Eleanor LeCain, Abdul Aziz Said, Philip Bogdonoff, Kirkpatrick Sale, Vandana Shiva, Tom Ginsburg, Maria Duerr, and Mark Hertsgaard. Special thanks are due to Andy Cooper, who combed through all of Petra's papers, established the outline of the book, and did all of the initial editing, and Margaret Kelly, Petra's mother, whose cooperation and support have been most heartening.Our deepest wish for this book is that it serve as a tribute to Petra K Kelly, one of the great peacemakers of the twentieth century, and that it also serve in some small way to help bring about the kind of world Petra worked so hard all her life to create.
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