New York Times
By Devin Leonard
Ms. Rogers offers plenty of evidence that consumers who load up their shopping carts with organic food, for instance, may be unwittingly subsidizing big farm companies that are eradicating forests and defiling the soil in some developing countries. She says their governments aren't as concerned about the environment, and well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations don't have much clout.
"Green Gone Wrong" to be released later this month, doesn't just go after easy targets like big corporations that she says are clearly more interested in making money than saving the earth.
She is also critical of fashionably green rock bands like Coldplay, whose members fly around the world and think they can erase their sizable carbon footprints by planting trees in developing countries. In Coldplay's case, many of the trees died.
Indeed, Ms. Rogers is so scornful of the mainstream environmental movement that a lot of her points could be used by its enemies, like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who are always looking for ammunition.
Even if you don't agree with all of Ms. Rogers' assertions - and I don't - they are not so easily dismissed. "Green Gone Wrong" is well-written and exhaustively reported. The author went to places like Uruguay, Borneo and India to show problems she says the green movement has inadvertently created.
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