The death of environmentalism

While I haven't actually read the 13,000 word report by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus I did read the NYT account (password protected, so no link) and I am inclined to agree that environmentalism is, in fact dead, even moreso than Kyoto. I think it is representative of a great huge shrug of indifference that swept in a wave across North America sometime early this decade, blowing away any last resistance to anything, replaced by everything that we have before us today. Perhaps once reality t.v. hit the airwaves people cared too much about other people's problems than those plaguing our way of life, leading to the world which we find ourselves in now.

Pretty depressing, but again I think it's true, ESPECIALLY coming from the U.S.