AR-News: (U.S.) America's atrophying environmental movement

[Mary Finelli]

ONE NATION, UNDERPERFORMING
U.S. Increasingly Outsources Environmental Leadership
Daily Grist, April 5, 2004


Modern environmentalism was born in the United States.  In the wake of the 
original Earth Day, the U.S. passed groundbreaking laws to protect the air 
and water.  Groups like the Sierra Club steered many citizens into 
environmental advocacy.  The world looked to us as a model.  But no more.  
Now, when it comes to renewable energy, global-warming policy, green 
building, and other areas of environmental innovation, the U.S. is a 
laggard.  Worse, we're actually a major cause of the biggest environmental 
problems -- like China, a hungry, belching giant that the world must coax 
into the mildest of restraints.  Bill McKibben reflects ruefully on the 
atrophying of the American environmental movement -- only on the Grist 
Magazine website.

only in Grist:  The U.S. has outsourced environmental leadership -- by Bill 
McKibben in Soapbox
http://www.gristmagazine.com/soapbox/mckibben040504.asp?source=daily

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