Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement (Paperback)

Andrew Rowell (author)

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Paperback 504 Pages / Published: 26/09/1996

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Synopsis

The tide is turning against environmentalism as the political right, industry and governments fight back.
Green Backlash is a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement. Tracing the rise of the backlash from the Wise Use movement in the USA, the author reveals its rapid spread worldwide: the anti-roads movement in the UK, forestry debates in Canada and Australia, marine resource issues in Europe, South-East Asia, and controversies such as the Brent Spar.
The backlash is set to get worse as the resource wars intensify. This book offers a greater understanding of the challenges and threats facing global environmentalism, concluding that the environmental movement now has a chance to re-evaluate and change for the better to beat the backlash - a chance that must not be missed.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9780415128285
Number of pages: 504
Weight: 680 g
Dimensions: 235 x 159 x 32 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"Overall, "Green Backlash is a highly readable, disturbing account of the growing anti-environmental (ist) movement. The book reveals the harsher realities of environmental life at the tail end of the 20th century."
-"CNS, March, 1997
..."it is well-written, draws upon varied facets of the world environmental opposition, and provides a "wake-up-call" for those who are not well aware of global environmental affairs."
-"Environmental History
..." [the] environmental agenda is clear throughout."
-"Skeptic
..." disturbing ... In "Green Backlash--which I heartily recommend to anyone concerned about the environment--Rowell concludes that the environmental movement must start to put forward positive solutions, not just call attention to problems."
-Alain Dessaint, "Healthy and Natural Journal