When historians sit to appraise the environmental actions of the baby-boomer generation they will say that they tried, did some good things, but failed to grasp the big picture.
They will also record that the most important consequence of this failure was that people did not see the solutions that were there for the taking.
Instead they focused on issues that they believed were real but turned out, with the benefit of hindsight, to be only partially relevant.
I have just published a short ebook at Smashwords that takes a sideways look at 10 environmental issues and puts them into context. It collates a few examples around one core idea that may be useful to the historians of the future.
And it can be yours for less that the price of a skim latte.
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