TERRIBLE BEAUTY

A firsthand trench view story of the failure of the modern environmental movement and an inspiring prescription for change Something s gone badly awry with environmentalism We faithfully separate our waste into different streams but wonder whether it really makes a difference Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences American businesses communities and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints then implement voluntary emissions reduction programs all while trumpeting their do gooderism The problem is none of this whether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tactics will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change We only pretend it will at our peril As sustainability veteran Auden Schendler argues in this provocative powerful book we re living a big green lie The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo We have become somehow complicit But there is another truth while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice we all have friends and family we love and care about whose future depend