Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism

by Martin W. Lewis

Scholars, politicians, and activists worldwide are finally recognizing the severity of the global environmental crisis, yet serious threats to the environmental movement remain. Anti-environmentalists dismiss the very idea of a "crisis" as a mirage. Much less obvious, however, is the more subtle threat masquerading under the mantle of environmentalism itself. It is this threat that Green Delusions addresses. Writing from the standpoint of a committed environmentalist, Martin W. Lewis contends that many of the most devoted and strident "greens," those who propose a radical environmentalism, unwittingly espouse an ill-conceived doctrine that has devastating implications for the global ecosystem. In this book he distinguishes the main variants of eco-extremism, exposes the fallacies upon which such views ultimately flounder, and demonstrates that the policies advocated by their proponents would, if enacted, result in unequivocal ecological disaster. At once polemic and prescriptive, Green Delusions is an impassioned attempt to defend the environmental movement against extremist ideas that would lead to self-defeating political strategies.

Genres: Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1992

Reviews

[Curtis]

Green, itself, is less necessary to environmental process, than the actual act of environmental protection itself. Perhaps what else we could define the necessary ecological step in industrial application instead as being an "environmental Browning", where we Brown nature. Whereby the great Browning of it becomes both security and benefit, where nature in its natural state is both kept to its own advances, in its own place and time, as well as to the benefit and availability of civilization and humanity, for a mutually beneficial process. Environmentalism could also be broken down into a Yellow and a Blue, where "merged" green values are separated into something more useful.

There might even be a time when we move beyond a terminology which demands such a color coded system. Instead the chemistry, ingenuity and utility of the process will define the parameters surrounding its own definitive characteristics.

[John Jacobi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Important read for every eco-radical. If you cannot weather the storm Lewis throws at you, you ought to reconsider the basis of your radicalism.