We're All Climate Hypocrites Now reimagines what it means to be a "good environmentalist." Moving past carbon footprints, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami Grover takes a tongue-in-cheek approach, skewering those pointing fingers, celebrating those trying, and offering practical pathways to actually make a difference.
We're All Climate Hypocrites Now reimagines what it means to be a "good environmentalist." Moving past carbon footprints, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami Grover takes a tongue-in-cheek approach, skewering those pointing fingers, celebrating those trying, and offering practical pathways to actually make a difference.
Sami Grover has spent half his life trying to live a low-carbon lifestyle. He's written about everything from composting to e-bikes, yet he's seen only marginal success in reducing his own impact. Active in the sphere of good-for-the-world business, he has developed branding projects for clients including Burt's Bees, Dogwood Alliance, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Sami lives in Durham, NC.
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Acknowledgments: An Incomplete Catalog of Gushing Praise and Profuse Thanks Preface: The Night I Went Drinking and the World Fell Apart A Gradual Social Reckoning Action Is Contagious Too Getting to the Point 1. We're All Climate Hypocrites Now What Does 'Hypocrite' Even Mean? Rational Choice Is No Choice At All Undermining the Messenger A Convenient Mistruth Eco-Moralism Runs Deep Nothing's Ever Easy The Limits of Personal Responsibility Why Individual Action Still Matters 2. Wants and Needs Voting and Shopping Are Not the Same Thing The Irrational Consumer Behavior Is About Design The Roles We Play Abstinence Is Still Individualism Finding a Bigger Political Canvas 3. How "Green" Lost Its Groove Dilution of a Movement A Missed Opportunity The Rise of Eco-Individualism The Real Value of Lifestyle Activism Exposing the Challenges 4. Enough Already The Emergence of a Movement Identifying the Culprits The Rebels Are Angry Who Is Holding Us Back? The Personal Is Political (As Long As You Make It So) A Latent Force 5. Guilt Trip Eating Our Own Undermining a Hero The Power of Shaming Shaping Cultural Norms Preserving a Formidable Tool The New Pariahs Peer Pressure for the Win Guilt Is Good? Values Are a Moving Target 6. Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint Some Are More Responsible Than Others The Tobacco Playbook They've Never Been the Good Guys Deflating the Carbon Bubble Can Big Oil "Go Green"? A Missed Opportunity Balancing on the High Wire Coal as the Canary A Tenacious Grip on Power 7. Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined "Responsible" Versus "Sustainable" Corporate Citizenship ¿ For Real A Different Kind of Insurance Beyond Corporate Responsibility A Different Type of Shareholder Primacy? Benefit Corporations Step Up The Power of Corporate Activism Beware the Benign Benefactor Capitalists Against Unbridled Capitalism? 8. Swimming Upstream "You Are Definitely Going to Die" Meeting People Where They Are Changing the Direction of the Current Modeling What's Possible Subsidizing the Incumbents The Destructive as the Default Writing a Different Story A More Interesting Conversation 9. Focus, Goddammit An Effective Exercise in Distraction Attention Is a Limited Resource First Things First The Beginning of the End of Coal Being "Better" Meat Eaters and Vegetarians Unite The System Responds The Cheapest Way to Fry The Growth of Flygskam An Inclusive Conversation? 10. What Difference Does It Make? Organized Resistance Historical Serendipity The Real Power of the Individual A Reckoning on Race It's Not About Me (Or You) The Lure of Agency How Change Actually Happens What's My Duty? Shifting Our Collective Values 11. Climate Hypocrites Unite! A False Dawn The Power of Imperfection Finding Our Place Coda: The Journey Down, Together What Next? Resources, Organizations, and Actions Knowledge Is Power Get Organized Rethink Your Mobility Eat Smarter Good Energy Money Matters Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers
Acknowledgments: An Incomplete Catalog of Gushing Praise and Profuse Thanks Preface: The Night I Went Drinking and the World Fell Apart A Gradual Social Reckoning Action Is Contagious Too Getting to the Point 1. We're All Climate Hypocrites Now What Does 'Hypocrite' Even Mean? Rational Choice Is No Choice At All Undermining the Messenger A Convenient Mistruth Eco-Moralism Runs Deep Nothing's Ever Easy The Limits of Personal Responsibility Why Individual Action Still Matters 2. Wants and Needs Voting and Shopping Are Not the Same Thing The Irrational Consumer Behavior Is About Design The Roles We Play Abstinence Is Still Individualism Finding a Bigger Political Canvas 3. How "Green" Lost Its Groove Dilution of a Movement A Missed Opportunity The Rise of Eco-Individualism The Real Value of Lifestyle Activism Exposing the Challenges 4. Enough Already The Emergence of a Movement Identifying the Culprits The Rebels Are Angry Who Is Holding Us Back? The Personal Is Political (As Long As You Make It So) A Latent Force 5. Guilt Trip Eating Our Own Undermining a Hero The Power of Shaming Shaping Cultural Norms Preserving a Formidable Tool The New Pariahs Peer Pressure for the Win Guilt Is Good? Values Are a Moving Target 6. Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint Some Are More Responsible Than Others The Tobacco Playbook They've Never Been the Good Guys Deflating the Carbon Bubble Can Big Oil "Go Green"? A Missed Opportunity Balancing on the High Wire Coal as the Canary A Tenacious Grip on Power 7. Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined "Responsible" Versus "Sustainable" Corporate Citizenship ¿ For Real A Different Kind of Insurance Beyond Corporate Responsibility A Different Type of Shareholder Primacy? Benefit Corporations Step Up The Power of Corporate Activism Beware the Benign Benefactor Capitalists Against Unbridled Capitalism? 8. Swimming Upstream "You Are Definitely Going to Die" Meeting People Where They Are Changing the Direction of the Current Modeling What's Possible Subsidizing the Incumbents The Destructive as the Default Writing a Different Story A More Interesting Conversation 9. Focus, Goddammit An Effective Exercise in Distraction Attention Is a Limited Resource First Things First The Beginning of the End of Coal Being "Better" Meat Eaters and Vegetarians Unite The System Responds The Cheapest Way to Fry The Growth of Flygskam An Inclusive Conversation? 10. What Difference Does It Make? Organized Resistance Historical Serendipity The Real Power of the Individual A Reckoning on Race It's Not About Me (Or You) The Lure of Agency How Change Actually Happens What's My Duty? Shifting Our Collective Values 11. Climate Hypocrites Unite! A False Dawn The Power of Imperfection Finding Our Place Coda: The Journey Down, Together What Next? Resources, Organizations, and Actions Knowledge Is Power Get Organized Rethink Your Mobility Eat Smarter Good Energy Money Matters Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers
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