Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental MovementThe 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
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
GET ON THE GLOBAL GREEN | 100 |
DIRTY TRICKS DOWN UNDER | 232 |
GreenpeaceMorgan | 236 |
3 Bob Brown is dragged from a protest at Farmhouse Creek | 255 |
1 A typical logging camp in Sarawak at Tubau | 265 |
A SHELLSHOCKED LAND | 288 |
1 Pipelines on farmland at Yorla Ogoni Nigeria | 292 |
1 Shells Brent Spar rig is sprayed with water during Greenpeaces | 324 |
2 Traffic moving through Twyford Down showing the extent | 333 |
4 Protester being dragged off site by a security guard at the | 341 |
A FISHY TALE TO FINISH | 356 |
1 Whale meat at a quayside in Iceland | 357 |
BEATING THE BACKLASH | 372 |
Notes | 377 |
| 464 | |
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