{"product_id":"green-gone-wrong-how-our-economy-is-undermining-the-environmental-revolution-9781416572220","title":"Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGreen Gone Wrong \u003c\/i\u003eenvironmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today's much-touted \"green\" products--carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes--really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for \"clean\" ones.\u003c\/b\u003e But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the world tracking how the conversion from a \"petro\" to a \"green\" society affects the most fundamental aspects of life--food, shelter, and transportation. Reporting from some of the most remote places on earth, Rogers uncovers shocking results that include massive clear-cutting, destruction of native ecosystems, and grinding poverty. Relying simply on market forces, people with good intentions wanting to just \"do something\" to help the planet are left feeling confused and powerless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreen Gone Wrong \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a fuller story, taking the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of eco-friendly consumption. What do the labels \"USDA Certified Organic\" and \"Fair Trade\" really mean on a vast South American export-driven organic farm? A superlow-energy \"eco-village\" in Germany's Black Forest demonstrates that green homes dramatically shrink energy use, so why aren't we using this technology in America? The decisions made in Detroit's executive suites have kept Americans driving gas-guzzling automobiles for decades, even as U.S. automakers have European models that clock twice the mpg. Why won't they sell these cars domestically? And what does carbon offsetting really mean when projects can so easily fail? In one case thousands of trees planted in drought-plagued Southern India withered and died, releasing any CO2 they were meant to neutralize. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExpertly reported, this gripping exposé pieces together a global picture of what's happening in the name of today's environmentalism. \u003ci\u003eGreen Gone Wrong \u003c\/i\u003espeaks to anyone interested in climate change and the future of the natural world, as well as those who want to act but are caught not knowing who, or what, to believe to protect the planet. Rogers casts a sober eye on what's working and what's not, fearlessly pushing ahead the debate over how to protect the planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRogers, Heather:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Heather Rogers is a journalist and author. She has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother \u003c\/i\u003eJones, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eGone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage\u003c\/i\u003e, traces the history and politics of household garbage in the United States.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRogers, Heather:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Heather Rogers is a journalist and author. She has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother \u003c\/i\u003eJones, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eGone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage\u003c\/i\u003e, traces the history and politics of household garbage in the United States.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50415108161810,"sku":"9781416572220","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f966593-241f-424e-a67c-2fe68784612b.jpg?v=1729394201","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/green-gone-wrong-how-our-economy-is-undermining-the-environmental-revolution-9781416572220","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}