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Grist Magazine's Seven-Week Series on the Intersection of Economic and Ecological Survival

  • Organization: Grist magazine
  • Document Type: Article/News
  • Date Created: Thursday, March 02, 2006
  • Submitted: Thursday, March 02, 2006
  • Attachment(s): HTM
From the introduction:

"Consider this central paradox of U.S. environmentalism: In much of popular and political culture, the movement is dismissed as the pet cause of white, well-off Americans-people who can afford to buy organic arugula, vacation in Lake Tahoe, and worry about the fate of the Pacific pocket mouse. And yet, the population most affected by environmental problems is the poor."