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A Challenge to Enviros

HERTSGAARD, Mark | January 3, 2005 issue

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Offers a look at the environmental movement in the United States. Reference to an essay entitled "The Death of Environmentalism," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, which discusses the impotence of the environmental movement in the U.S.; Failure of environmental organizations to make progress against global climate change, species loss, deforestation or other environmental threats; Need for the environmental movement to take a strategy aimed at building a political majority in the U.S. that will support environmental and other progressive values; Reference to the book "The End of Nature," by Bill McKibben; Criticism of the essay by Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's executive director.

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ENVIRONMENTALISM; SOCIAL movements; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; ENVIRONMENTALISTS; GREEN movement; ESSAYS; SHELLENBERGER, Michael; NORDHAUS, Ted; UNITED States
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