Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement

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Routledge, 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.

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
AMERICA LEADS THE WAY
4
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

8 THE FIGHT FOR THE FORESTS OF CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICA
209

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About the author (2017)

Andrew Rowell is a Freelance Environmental Consultant who has researched and written extensively about contemporary environmental issues with Greenpeace and other organisations.

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