From the Stacks: September 1, 2006

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In the September/October issue of Orion, the magazine takes on a topic that usually doesn't make it into the pages of environmental magazines: violence. '[T]hough many people know that war is among the worst possible things for the natural world,' the editors explain, 'landscape and violence are seldom part of the same conversation.' Whether it's the physical destruction visible in a post-Katrina Gulf Coast, or the slow devastation of the species-rich grasslands, Orion suggests humans and nature have been tangled in a brawl that's gone too far. Mark Kurlansky's feature, 'Nonviolence,' questions whether people are inherently violent, or just stuck in a history of conflict. 'What if we lived in a world that had no word for war other than nonpeace?' he asks. 'What kind of world would that be?' -- Rachel Anderson

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