Kirkpatrick Sale is a non-fiction writer, journalist, editor, and environmental activist, who focuses on political, economic, and ecological problems of contemporary society, proposing novel – and often controversial – solutions. Sale is the author of 12 books, including Human Scale (Perigee, 1982), The Green Revolution (Hill & Wang, 1993), and Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution, Lessons for the Computer Age (Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996). A contributing editor of The Nation, Sale writes for periodicals in the U.S. and the U.K., and is a board member of The PEN American Center, the E.F. Schumacher Society, and The Learning Alliance of New York City.