A comprehensive guide to the impediments facing environmentally
progressive agendas.
Despite the comprehensively understood severity of environmental
problems faced today, progress in the United States is continually
stymied, making sustainability feel like a far-off goal. Obstacles to
Environmental Progress takes up the structural, political, and cultural
forces that routinely hinder progress on existing environmental issues.
Addressing problems both small and large, often regardless of whether an
issue is controversial, this book illustrates obstacles that manifest in
the United States but are globally pertinent. Peter Schulze identifies
eighteen practical obstacles that fall into three categories: scientific
challenges to anticipating and detecting problems; political and
economic factors that interfere with responding; and obstacles to
effective responses. This book seeks to hasten environmental progress by
bridging academic disciplines to forewarn and forearm those who might
otherwise encounter these anti-environmentalist obstacles in an ad-hoc
manner.
