Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement

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Psychology Press, 1996 - Nature - 476 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

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
Index
464

2 Ken SaroWiwa addresses the crowd on 3 January 1993
298
THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
320

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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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