Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Bookchin wrote ‘Our Synthetic Environment’ under the pseudonym Lewis Herber. This was one of the first books of the modern period in which an author espoused an ecological and environmentalist worldview. It predates ‘Silent Spring’ (1962) by Rachel Carson, a more widely known book on the same topic widely credited as starting the environmental movement.