You Say You Want A Revolution? You Say You Want a Revolution?
Emerging economic strategies may hold the key to broadening
democracy and enhancing environmental protection at the same
time. Since the modern environmental movement was born in the
1970s, enormous funds and energies have been expended globally
to understand and cure our environmental ills. The result has
been some spectacular successes-the Montreal Protocol to control
chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions and preserve the
stratospheric ozone layer usually springs to mind-as well as
growing understanding of the Earth's ecosystems and our effects
on them, and a widely expressed commitment (at least on paper)
to their health. In most countries, nearly everyone says he or
she is an environmentalist. So why don't the trends look better?
Consider a few examples from Vital Signs, Worldwatch's periodic
look at environmental indices. Nearly one in four mammal species
is in serious decline. The Earth's ice cover is melting as
global average surface temperatur