Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Mexico and the Pesticide Crusade
• 1. The Death of Ramón González
• 2. The Road to Culiacán
• 3. Doctors and Bureaucrats
• 4. Going Home
• 5. King Eight Deer, the Plagues, and the Devastation of the Land
• 6. Technology and Conflict
• 7. Consumers, Workers, Growers, and Experts
• 8. Theory and Consequences
• 9. The Modern Agricultural Dilemma
• 10. Points North
• Afterword: The Death of Ramón González and the Twenty-first Century
• References
• Index

About the Author

Angus Wright is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at California State University, Sacramento.

Reviews

From reviews of the first edition: "Angus Wright has shown in a brilliant study [how] the imposition of high-yield agriculture helped to break apart the intimate relationship between cultures and ecosystems that had coevolved over long periods of time." David W. Orr, from Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect "The Death of Ramon Gonzalez is a blockbuster. In a dramatic, readable story, Wright has provided a new way of looking at the tragic human and environmental consequences of chemical-dependent agriculture." Wes Jackson, The Land Institute