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Review: Green Inc. by Christine MacDonald

By Fred Pearce

8 October 2008

THE more sanctimonious arms of the environmental movement have been in need of this book for a long time. In a , Christine MacDonald tells the story of how the biggest perpetrators of public relations “greenwash” are often the greens themselves. At their worst, she argues, conservationists sell themselves as willing dupes and apologists for some of the most environmentally unfriendly corporations on the planet.

According to MacDonald, big money-spinning environmental groups like , (CI) and are bankrolled by super-rich benefactors, and several of their boards feature executives from donor corporations. To…

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