The New Environmental Activists
MacDonald, Christine
E - The Environmental Magazine, May/June 2010, v21, #3, pp22-32
"Let's face it: Things are looking pretty bleak on the environmental front. Scientists warn we are running out of time to put the breaks on global warming before the planet slips beyond a "livable" climate, but public opinion is headed in the other direction. Two years ago, an overwhelming majority of Americans — 71% — agreed global warming was happening and only 10% doubted it. But after "Climategate," in which hacked e-mails between U.K. climate scientists showed that certain information was being withheld from the public, the economic recession and the politicization of global warming, that consensus has slipped dramatically. A new poll shows just over one-half of the public now believes that global warming is a serious problem." This article discusses the modern environmental activists and the politization of global warming.
Christine MacDonald is the author of Green, Inc. (Lyons Press), which examines the corporate ties of several of the country's largest environmental groups.
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