Word: environmentalist
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...Glancing at the provisional agreements, it's not hard to see why environmentalist groups across the board have expressed disappointment. The delegates have agreed that humanity is eating too many fish, and that catches ought to be trimmed in order to sustain stocks. They've agreed, also, that more care ought to be taken in the disposal of hazardous chemicals; more use ought to be made of renewable energy sources such as solar-, wind- and hydro-electricity; and also that it would be a really good idea to try, by the year 2015, to get clean drinking water and sanitation...
...originally intended as a followup to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, whose lofty proclamations went the way of most lofty proclamations. The perennial failure of such summits to produce meaningful programs of action has prompted some observers to suggest that summitry itself may begin to breed cynicism. Environmentalist groups, however, tend to believe that the cynicism is actually sharpest among the participant governments, whose input often tends to reflect their own narrow economic concerns rather than those of the greater good they've ostensibly gathered to protect...
Fuzzy math and scare tactics might help green groups raise money, but when they, abetted by an environmentally friendly media, overplay their hand, it invites scathing critiques like that of Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist debunks environmental exaggerations...
...lanky Danish vegetarian who wears T shirts to important meetings and votes only for left-wing politicians become the great Satan of environmentalism? By telling everyone he is an environmentalist but sounding like the opposite. "We are not running out of energy or natural resources," writes Bjorn Lomborg, 37, an associate professor of statistics at Denmark's University of Aarhus and a former member of Greenpeace, in his 1998 book The Skeptical Environmentalist. "Air and water around us are becoming less and less polluted. Mankind's lot has actually improved in terms of practically every measurable indicator...
...political nature of "green" tourism. It is, she argues, a fundamentally capitalistic, neoliberal concept that fails to deliver on claims that it significantly benefits development and conservation while bolstering host countries' revenues. At the heart of the debate is ecotourism's place at the "blue-green" end of the environmentalist spectrum, where even nature has an intrinsic economic value. "Ecotourism," says Duffy, becomes a "buzzword that assists businesses in marketing their products." In the global tourism industry, "cultures and societies become commodities to be consumed by an external audience." Ecotourists create "a huge economic, environmental and social impact merely...