Fight for the Bay

Howard R. Ernst

doi:10.5771/9781461636755

Summary

In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy of compromise over confrontation and that has fueling a 'political dead zone' where political leaders posture but fail to make the hard decisions needed to achieve real improvement in the Bay's health. While blunt in his evaluation of past and present failures to restore the Bay, Ernst believes that there is still time to turn the restoration effort around and sets out new 'dark green' strategies to do so. In the concluding chapter, five long-time bay activists provide first-person accounts of their battles and hopes for the future. Hailed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as 'a must read for anyone concerned about environmental protection,' this challenging book provides a wake-up call for everyone concerned about the future of the Chesapeake Bay and other ecological treasures through out America.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-6323-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-3675-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 145
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Environmental Conflict: A Clash of Values No access
2. Dark Green Environmental Thought No access
3. Light Green Environmental Thought No access
4. Cornucopian Thought No access
5. The Political Dead Zone No access
6. Assumptions of the Light Green Paradigm No access
7. Critique of the Light Green Approach No access
8. The Dark Green Alternative: Interstate Compacts No access
9. Conclusion No access
1. Environmental Economics 101 No access
2. The Long Struggle for Sensible Environmental Management No access
3. Regional Management and the Bay Program No access
4. A Model of Success or a Model of Deception? No access
5. The Sticky Sweet Stuff of Light Green Political Promises No access
6. A Ray of Hope? No access
1. Why Environmental Journalism Matters No access
2. The State of Journalism in America No access
3. The State of Environmental Journalism No access
4. Understanding the Environmental Beat No access
5. Goals of the Environmental Reporter No access
6. The Elements of Career Success for Environmental Journalists No access
7. How Editors View Their Readers No access
8. Conclusion No access
1. In Defense of Sacred Places No access
2. The Inside Game No access
3. The Long Fight No access
4. No Safe Way No access
5. The Final Word No access
Notes No access Pages 115 - 130
References No access Pages 131 - 138
Index No access Pages 139 - 144
About the Author No access Pages 145 - 145