Green Gone Wrong - En Espanol ;-) !!!

By: EW News Desk Team   Date: 10 April 2010

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10 April 2010

"Green Gone Wrong" En Espanol ;-) !!!

Check out this Spanish translation by Dr Claudio Pairoba,

"Green Gone Wrong" En Espanol ;-) !!!

Check out this Spanish translation by Dr Claudio Pairoba,

an Argentine writer with a PhD in Biochemistry, and an MA in MediAnalysis, who generally focuses on the interrelation among science / media and society / and geo-political economy

of our April 8 "In the News" item about Heather Rogers' provocative "Green Gone Wrong", which elicited a spirited discussion on FaceBook ...

In it, she warns about the dangers of buying into an "eco-consumer" mind-set,

arguing green capitalism is actually undermining ecological progress.

Ms. Rogers is a muckraking investigative reporter who is also the author of “Gone Tomorrow: the Hidden Life of Garbage.”

She says corporate America has led us into thinking that we can save the earth mainly by buying things like compact fluorescent light bulbs, hybrid gas-electric cars and carbon offsets.

“The new green wave, typified by the phrase ‘lazy environmentalism,’ is geared toward the masses that aren’t willing to sacrifice,” Ms. Rogers complains.

“This brand of armchair activism actualizes itself most fully in the realm of consumer goods; through buying the right products we can usher our economic system into the environmental age.”

She is also critical of fashionably green rock bands like Coldplay, whose members fly around the world and think they can erase their sizable carbon footprints by planting trees in developing countries.

In Coldplay’s case, many of the trees died.

Un millon de gracias, Sr Dr Pairoba ;-) !!!


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