Sam Savage's first novel, Firmin, chronicled the coming-of-age misadventures of a very literate rat living in a bookstore in Boston's Scollay Square. Garnering praise from authors and...
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Billed as "environmental insiders", the two young authors instead display an uncanny ignorance of environmental history and have little vision to offer for the masses of people already engaged in environmental activism. In contrast to the heroes of the Environmental Justice movement, who they dishonestly or ignorantly disparage in a flimsy attempt to elevate their own limited thinking, readers will soon forget the names of these two, as we have others who make a business of tearing down and cashing in.
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Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
jrobinson, February 16, 2009
Billed as "environmental insiders", the two young authors instead display an uncanny ignorance of environmental history and have little vision to offer for the masses of people already engaged in environmental activism. In contrast to the heroes of the Environmental Justice movement, who they dishonestly or ignorantly disparage in a flimsy attempt to elevate their own limited thinking, readers will soon forget the names of these two, as we have others who make a business of tearing down and cashing in.(5 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)