Is Environmentalism Dead?
A 2004 survey by Environics revealed that 43 percent of the public agreed that “most of the people actively involved in environmental groups are extremists, not reasonable people.†This figure was 32 percent in 1996. The shift may be due to the movement’s lack of a compelling, positive message. In one of their better lines, Shellenberger and Nordhaus note that Martin Luther King Jr. gave America “I have a dream,†but “environmental leaders are effectively giving the ‘I have a nightmare’ speech instead.â€
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