Name: And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia's Marshlands was Fought-And won (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series)
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Author: Jimmy Carter
ISBN: 9780820356730

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And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia's Marshlands was Fought-And won (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Reid W. Harris

Preface by

Jimmy Carter

Epilogue by

Charles H. McMillan

Publisher

Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

136

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9780820356730

Synopsis "And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia's Marshlands was Fought-And won (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series) "

A broad-based coalition of conservative southern politicians, countercultural activists, environmental scientists, sportsmen, devout Christians, garden clubs in Atlanta, and others came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was a first-in-the-nation bill to save the marshes of a state from mining and aggressive development and was a political watershed that reflected the changing nature of the state. It set a foundation that would lead to the thoughtful use of the state's coastal resources still relevant today. And the Coastlands Wait is the history of this legislative act, as told by St. Simons lawyer and leader of the coalition, Reid Harris. Harris served as head of the environmental section of Governor Jimmy Carter's Goals for Georgia program and later as chairman of the governor's State Environmental Council. The coastlands coalition he led backed a groundbreaking act that, when instated, set up a permitting process to control development and to protect five hundred thousand acres of precious Georgia marshland. That coalition did not survive for long and is now seen as an unusual moment in the history of conservation, when allies as deeply diverse as conservative governor Lester Maddox and Atlanta liberals stood together.

Jimmy Carter

(Preface by)

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James Earl Carter Jr., known as Jimmy Carter, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. He was the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Before his presidency, Carter served as the governor of Georgia and as a naval officer. After leaving the White House, he has dedicated his life to promoting human rights and world peace, founding the Carter Center in 1982.

In addition to his political work, Carter is a prolific author. Among his most notable works are: An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood, published in 2001, which is a memoir of his childhood in the southern United States; Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis, published in 2005, addresses issues of ethics and morality in American politics; Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, published in 2006, offers a perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; among others.

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