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Green Backlash

Global Subversion of the Environment Movement

By: Andrew Rowell

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Paperback | 26 September 1996 | Edition Number 1

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504 Pages

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The tide is now turning against the environmental movement as the political right, affluent industries, and cash-strapped governments are fighting back.Green Backlashis a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement which is now gathering steam around the globe. More than an analysis,Green Backlashis an insider's account of this controversial struggle over the future of the earth and its precious resources, revealing in gross detail to what great lengths corporations will go to serve and to protect their own interests. Tracing the rise of the backlash movement from the Wise Use proponents and growth in the United States, the author reveals its increasing popularity and rapid spread worldwide through the anti-roads movement in the United Kingdom, the scathing forestry debates in Canada and Australia, and the heated conflicts over marine resources in Europe and South East Asia. Revealing how violence, physical and legal threats, andinternational scapegoating and polarization have suppressed activism throughout the world, the author draws on interviews with leading environmentalists and researchers to track right wing and corporate activity. As the resource wars intensify the backlash is set to get worse. This book offers a greater understanding of the challenges and threats facing global environmentalism, and urges the reader to re-evaluate the environmental movement in light of the power struggle currently underway.

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"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

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