Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment MovementRoutledge, 2017 M09 25 - 504 pages 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. |
Contents
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2 CULTURE WARS AND CONSPIRACY TALES | 42 |
3 THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY | 69 |
4 GET ON THE GLOBAL GREEN | 100 |
5 THE PARADIGM SHIFT | 126 |
SURVEILLANCE SUPPRESSION SLAPPS AND VIOLENCE | 157 |
A QUESTION OF TREES TRUTH AND TREASON? | 182 |
9 DIRTY TRICKS DOWN UNDER | 232 |
WHERE DISSENT CAN MEAN DETENTION OR DEATH | 260 |
11 A SHELLSHOCKED LAND | 288 |
12 THE ROAD TO NOWHERE | 320 |
13 A FISHY TALE TO FINISH | 356 |
BEATING THE BACKLASH | 372 |
Notes | 377 |
Index | 464 |
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