James Gustave Speth
Autor/a de The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Sobre l'autor
James Gustave Speth is dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University and author of Red Sky at Morning. He was awarded Japan's Blue Planet Prize for"a lifetime of creative and visionary leadership in the search for science-based solutions to global environmental mostra'n més problems." mostra'n menys
Obres de James Gustave Speth
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008) 192 exemplars
Global Environmental Governance: Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies (Foundations of Contemporary… (2006) 26 exemplars
Obres associades
What's the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness (2011) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 55 exemplars
A Better Future for the Planet Earth Vol III: Lectures by the Winners of the Blue Planet Prize (2002-2006) (2007) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1942-03-04
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
- Educació
- Yale University
- Professions
- environmental lawyer
college dean - Organitzacions
- Natural Resources Defense Council
Council on Environmental Quality
Georgetown University
World Resources Institute
United Nations Development Programme
Yale University (mostra-les totes 7)
Vermont Law School - Premis i honors
- National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award
Barbara Swain Award of Honor
Environmental Law Institute Lifetime Achievement Award
Blue Planet Prize (2002)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 474
- Popularitat
- #52,001
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 35
- Llengües
- 1
He founded the NRDC with something like a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation (and MacArthur?). Today their annual budget is over $100 million. "An oak tree is just a nut that held its ground."
Speth makes the point that environmentalism has not kept up with its opponents. In 1970 when NRDC started the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Protection Act were all brand new. Corporate pollutes were caught flat footed. Enforcing the laws was like shooting fish in a barrel. Now they have more than caught up led by wealthy and powerful forces like the Koch brothers. The bad guys now control the narrative positioning conservation as anti people and anti jobs. They even routinely succeed at information campaigns based on falsehood, bigotry and greed.
There is much work to be done.… (més)