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Mark Dowie

Mark Dowie’s latest book is Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. He’s also the author of Mother Jones’ 1977 expose of the Ford Pinto.

Articles

Conservation: Indigenous People's Enemy No. 1?

For centuries we've displaced people to save nature. A huge project in Africa offers a chance to turn that around.

Wed Nov. 25, 2009 4:00 AM PST

The Bechtel File

Read this 1978 Mother Jones article on Bechtel by Mark Dowie, as highlighted by the CIA.

Fri Apr. 3, 2009 2:36 PM PDT

Gods and Monsters

Talking apes, flying pigs, superhumans with armadillo attributes, and other strange considerations of Dr. Stuart Newman's fight to patent a human/animal chimera

January/February 2004 Issue

The Fourth Wave

Twenty-five years after the first Earth Day, Dowie argues, mainstream environmental groups have failed in most of their goals. But a fourth wave, at the grassroots, is newly energized.

March/April 1995 Issue

A Dumper's Guide to Tricks of the Trade

November/December 1979 Issue

Let Them Eat %?**!

November/December 1979 Issue

The Charge: Gynocide

The Accused: The U.S. Government

November/December 1979 Issue

The Corporate Crime of the Century

It's called dumping: When the U.S. government forces a dangerous drug, pesticide or other product off the domestic market, the manufacturer then sells that same product—frequently with the direct support of the State Department—throughout the rest of the world.

November/December 1979 Issue

Mother Jones Classic: The Exploding Ford Pinto

For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.

September/October 1977 Issue

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