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 Stories About: books AND environmental movement AND politics
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Newt? Seriously?
On Gingrich's new conservative environmentalism |
David Roberts |
31 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A few days ago I got a review copy of Newt Gingrich's new book, A Contract with the Earth. We've got somebody else reviewing it, so I don't plan to read it. I do, however, want to make two observations, one on policy, one on politics. On policy: Gingrich's shtick is that leftists took over the environmental movement and have made it synonymous with taxation, regulation, and litigation. That alienated conservatives, who thereafter got demonized as enemies of the enviro ... |
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| Topics: politics, books, environmental movement, Newt Gingrich (all these topics) |
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Environmentalism is so not dead!
Carl Pope reviews Break Through by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger |
Grist |
18 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This is a guest essay by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. Two years ago, Ted Nordhaus' and Michael Shellenberger's widely discussed essay "The Death of Environmentalism" predicted that the cause in which I've worked most of my life was about to gasp a grim last breath. The self-proclaimed "bad boy" authors must be embarrassed now. With their new book on the same theme about to land in bookstores, environmentalism is alive and perhaps ... |
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| Topics: books, environmental movement, politics (all these topics) |
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Can enviros learn to tell stories?
Learning from masters in other fields: What a concept! |
JMG |
09 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| David Mamet (author of The Verdict and Glengarry Glen Ross, among other fine things) writes this in his new book Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (a great book just loaded with great snark:As we enter the cinema, we relax our guard. We do so necessarily, because to resist, to insist on reality in the drama, is to rob ourselves of joy. For who would sit through he cartoon thinking constantly, 'Wait a second, elephants can't fly!' ... |
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| Topics: books, environmental movement, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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