Green Morality : Mankind's Role in Environmental Responsibility

Green Morality, renowned environmental columnist Edward Flattau's fourth book, is a thorough and timely exploration of mankind's moral role in environmental responsibility. The candid exploration of environmentalism exposes moral hypocrisy, failed environmental movements and policies, globally disastrous scenarios, and reckless endangerment of the world's species throughout the twentieth century and today. Crucial issues not in the forefront of environmentalism are illuminated and draws urgent attention to worldwide actions that will avert environmental devastation because of a universal moral imperative inherit in all cultures, countries and political systems.Crossing political and cultural boundaries, Flattau portrays environmentalism as a universal moral imperative that every person has a duty to uphold, not only for the salvation of the world's species, but also for mankind itself. The analysis of environmentalism's current situation and its history throughout the twentieth century uncovers global devastation committed by individuals, corporations and governments and Flattau demonstrates how this devastation is a moral failing.Flattau delivers starkly eminent solutions to avert environmental destruction that require a re-alignment of modern society's moral compass, transcending historical, political or institutional obligations. Edward Flattau is the nation's first and longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist with 40 years in the industry, columns in more than 120 daily newspapers, assignments from his Washington base, around the country, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and the recipient of ten national journalism awards.