... a precocious understanding of anthropogenic climate change. Ruskin John servants Brantwood middle class Severn Joan sufficiency archaeology beauty Collingwood William Gershom ethics of consumption forecasting limits to growth natural history technology waste coal Jevons William Stanley...

... examines how Ruskin’s followers came to terms with these tendencies in different ways. By recovering the place of sufficiency in the origins of environmentalism, Green Victorians offers a valuable mirror for the ideology of sustainability and limits to growth in our own age....