REFLECTIONS ON MY 25 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION

Allan Schaiberg of Northwestern University's Department of Sociology discusses his work as an environmental sociology researcher. He felt so personally integrated after writing a piece for an urban book John Walton was editing that he began to explore other opportunities to continue environmental work. During his sabbatical at the University of California at Santa Cruz for 1975-1976, he inductively drew out the core of his model of the treadmill of production. The major synthesis - the treadmill of production - drew together a number of theories and empirical trends. He sought to explain why and how environmental problems seemed to have increased so rapidly in the post-World War II period in industrial societies.