James Gustave Speth
Autor(a) de The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
About the Author
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 mostrar mais problems." mostrar menos
Obras por James Gustave Speth
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008) 189 exemplares
Global Environmental Governance: Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies (Foundations of Contemporary… (2006) 26 exemplares
They Knew: The Us Federal Governments Fifty-year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis (2021) 12 exemplares
Associated Works
What's the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness (2011) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 55 exemplares
A Better Future for the Planet Earth Vol III: Lectures by the Winners of the Blue Planet Prize (2002-2006) (2007) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1942-03-04
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
- Educação
- Yale University
- Ocupações
- environmental lawyer
college dean - Organizações
- Natural Resources Defense Council
Council on Environmental Quality
Georgetown University
World Resources Institute
United Nations Development Programme
Yale University (mostrar todos 7)
Vermont Law School - Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award
Barbara Swain Award of Honor
Environmental Law Institute Lifetime Achievement Award
Blue Planet Prize (2002)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 471
- Popularidade
- #52,267
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 35
- Línguas
- 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.… (mais)