| BRIGHT GREEN LIES How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, & Max Wilbert Rhinebeck, NY: Monkfish Book Publishing Co., March 2021 |
Rating: 4.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-948626-39-2 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-948626-39-X | 478pp. | SC/GSI | $24.95 | |
| Page xvii: | "We can't build soil, but the slow circling of bacteria, bison, and sweetgrass do." |
| Number error: S/B "does". |
| Page 7: | "The number of things we can store simultaneously in our brains—which have been two million years in the making—turns out to be a humble four." |
| I believe the number should be six. |
| Page 13: | "Two thousand years has not been enough time to heal the damage from the mine." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
| Page 107: | "Let's change a few of her words: 'So the issue is, |
| Making Naomi Klein say things she would never say is an attempt to turn her into a straw woman. It is a cheap shot. |
| Page 107: | "Two thousand years has not been enough time to heal the damage from the mine." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
| Page 128: | "This is what green energy is made from: the dust of shattered mountains, lakes of acid, and the agony of our winged and scaled kin." |
| One example of the loaded language typical of the book. |
| Page 217: | "This place is still rich in life, even in the midst of the biotic cleansing that has been underway for centuries here, millennia around the world." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 233: | "The low concentrations of sodium and potassium in this particular limestone means the cement can withstand the corrosive effects of saltwater and therefore lasts longer in the ocean." |
| Number error: S/B "low concentration". |
| Page 375: | "Transmission corridors fragment habitat just like roads do, slicing the land into smaller, more isolated pieces." |
| No, not like roads do — at least not for animals. Once plant cover grows back on the cleared corridor, I think even mice would cross it without much fear of predators. It's not like rubber tires will speed out of nowhere to run them down. |
| Page 403: | "The group Saving Iceland writes that 'the exploitation of the Reykjanes peninsula's geothermal areas spells the end of this magnificent nature of the peninsula as we know it.' " |
| Capitalization: S/B "the Reykjanes Peninsula's". Twice more on this page, the word "peninsula" is not capitalized when it should be. |
| Page 409: | "Fish migration and spawning is disrupted." |
| Number error: S/B "are". |
| Page 441: | "In Estonia, small-scale peat bog restoration projects have been underway for many years." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
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