“A Global Green Deal,” by Mark Hertsgaard: An Evaluation
Efficiency is nearly always a good thing. Businesses and organizations strive to improve efficiency, professional sports teams thrive on efficiency, and most people welcome efficiency in their lives as a way to make them more productive, save money, and deliver a better quality of life. So it makes perfect sense that efficiency in the manner with which we treat our environment would be a good thing. That much I am certain of and don’t need to be convinced. In a “Global Green Deal” Hertsgaard asserts that our planet is in peril and that repairing it can be a profitable enterprise. This eye-catching opening most certainly garners mass appeal to those already convinced of widespread environmental recklessness. He likens his world vision of profitability by environmental renovation to the technology boom, somehow suggesting that without the U.S. government, we’d still be using pens and scrolls and that the U.S.......
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