Resources for a sustainable future

by Christine MacDonald,  Lyons Press, 2008 $24.95  ISBN 978 1599214368According to Fred Pearce, senior environment correspondent for the New Scientist “An insider’s account of environmental groups’ “greenwashing” on behalf of polluting, multibillion-dollar corporations reveals environmentalism’ seamy side.”  Review in New Scientist 11/10/2008 No 2677 page 48.

Fred Pearce’s review says that “according to MacDonald, big money-spinning environmental groups like WWF, Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy are bankrolled by super-rich benefactors, and several of their boards feature executives from donor corporations.  To keep the funds rolling in compromises are inevitable.” …  “Why is it, she asks, that six of the top 10 most polluting companies, as judged bynthe University of Massachusetts, “are major contributors to big conservation groups”.”