The tide is turning against environmentalism as the political right, industry and governments fight back.
Green Backlash is a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement. Tracing the rise of the backlash from the Wise Use movement in the USA, the author reveals its rapid spread worldwide: the anti-roads movement in the UK, forestry debates in Canada and Australia, marine resource issues in Europe, South-East Asia, and controversies such as the Brent Spar.
The backlash is set to get worse as the resource wars intensify. This book offers a greater understanding of the challenges and threats facing global environmentalism, concluding that the environmental movement now has a chance to re-evaluate and change for the better to beat the backlash - a chance that must not be missed.

Andrew Rowell is a Freelance Environmental Consultant who has researched and written extensively about contemporary environmental issues with Greenpeace and other organisations.

Introduction; 1: Roll Back the Millennium: America leads the way; 2: Culture Wars and Conspiracy Tales; 3: The Death of Democracy; 4: Get On the Global Green; 5: The Paradigm Shift; 6: The Price of Silence: Surveillance, suppression, SLAPPs and violence; 7: To Cut or Not to Clear-Cut: A question of trees, truth and treason?; 8: The Fight for the Forests of Central and Latin America; 9: Dirty Tricks Down Under; 10: South Asia and the Pacific: Where dissent can mean detention or death; 11: 'A Shell-Shocked Land'; 12: The Road to Nowhere; 13: A Fishy Tale to Finish; 14: Conclusion: Beating the backlash; 15: Notes