Green Fatigue

Summary


As worry spreads through the nation about how global warming threatens the planet, some committed environmentalists find themselves afflicted by two new annoyances: "green noise" and "greenwashing." Together, they are causing a certain green fatigue that could endanger the growing national determination to do something about climate change.

Green noise was described in a recent New York Times article as "static caused by urgent, sometimes vexing or even contradictory information played at too high a volume for too long." The piece suggested that offering hemp-enriched shampoo and 100 percent organic tampons is a bit too much.

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Green Fatigue

Greenwashing, according to a Newsweek article, has been described as "the unjustified appropriation of environmental...

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