November 8, 2010

'What the Green Movement Got Wrong'

Adam Werbach, The Atlantic


Atlantic

"What were you thinking?" said the voice on the telephone late last week as I was settling in for the night. The caller was Ben Stewart, the head of media for Greenpeace in the UK. He had just seen an announcement for a new environmental documentary to be launched on Channel 4 in Britain and in "over a dozen countries." The title of the documentary: What the Green Movement Got Wrong. Stewart was calling because I was featured prominently in the documentary as one of a handful of lifelong greens who...

Read Full Article ››

TAGGED: genetically modified food, nuclear power, environmentalism

RECOMMENDED ARTICLES

May 10, 2012
Do Anti-Genetics Activists Know Anything?
Miller & Brookes, Forbes
Just in time for Earth Day in April, a Stanford Magazine article about the farming of soybeans offered a rich harvest of factual inaccuracies and misinformation.  The piece, by Judee Burr, a Stanford University senior... more ››
May 8, 2012
Save the Horses or Protect the Environment?
Laura Beil, NY Times
Come summer, the beaches of this barrier island will be choked with cars and sunbathers, but in the off-season the land is left to wild horses. Smallish, tending toward chestnut and black, they wander past deserted vacation... more ››
The human brain is torn between simple intuition and the more complex hard work of figuring out the unintended consequences of any policy. Who doesn’t like thinking about trees and greenery and happy animals? Who... more ››