Earth Shakers: The Counter-Enviro Power List (Know Your Enemies)

[Xithras]

America has a passion for arguing about environmental politics. In the 1960s and '70s, a coherent and energized environmental movement produced legislative landmarks, from the Wilderness Act to the Clean Water Act; it kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, and, with the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 1970, gave enforcement a strong institutional base. It is perhaps too easy now to forget the ferocity of the opposition to these achievements. But among environmentalism's greatest accomplishments was the forging of a broad bipartisan consensus about the proper role of law and policy in the stewardship of our resources.

Today, that consensus is under attack and in retreat. When George W. Bush, that oft misunderestimated president, announced the dawn of "a new environmentalism for the 21st century," in Sequoia National Park on May 30, 2001, it was not yet clear how relentless and successful his counterrevolution would be. But the transformation has not been simply a matter of White House clout and the mandate of reelection; Bush's new environmentalism is part of a brilliantly effective rebranding of the basic terms of conservation politics.
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Whatever your politics, if you care about the future of America's natural resources and wild places, you need to know the power brokers driving the counter-enviro juggernaut. In the pages that follow, we examine the 20 men and women who have seized the initiative, confronted mainstream environmentalism, and left it reeling, demoralized, in disarray.

And they say their work has only begun.

http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200505/counter-enviroment-power-list-1.html

[DanCa]

1. Okay stop the earth i want to get off

Assuming that there is an Earth left after these freaks get thru with it. I cant believe what kind of Bizzaro Superman world I am no living in. Protecting the Earth is no long considered a good thing to do I thought I never would see the day.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. "The meek shall inherit the Earth...

...after we've finished with it"

I thought that was hilarious first time I heard it, years ago.
Funny how times change...

[OneBlueSky]

3. well . . . that sure is a real nice list of complete idiots . . .

they've assembled there . . . haven't read all the write-ups, but I'd bet a dollar that every damned one of them has some connection to at least one corporate polluter . . .

[bloom]

4. What's the matter with...

nature-worshiping pagans?

Re:
"The critique goes like this: Mainstream environmentalism is a deluded ideology hostile to private property and common sense. It puts animals and trees before people and jobs. At best, it is a reflexive ally of a discredited liberalism; at worst, it is a cultlike alliance of nature-worshiping pagans."


I'll take nature-worshiping pagans over corporate-worshipping people (pagan or not) any day.