The afterlife of environmentalism: can we tie big global concerns to the everyday lives of Americans?(THE ENVIRONMENT: DEATH AND REBIRTH)
American Prospect, The, October, 2005 by Meyer, John M.
A YEAR AGO, TWO COMMITTED activists with serious credentials in the environmental movement released a report proclaiming "the death of environmentalism." In so doing, they sparked a debate that continues to this day. While some have suggested that both the authors and their accusations emerged from nowhere, they in fact put a spotlight on some recurrent, yet seldom influential, criticisms leveled by minority voices within the movement.
If these criticisms are correct (and in large measure I think that they are),the environmental movement, and the progressive left of which ...
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