We can no longer trust greens to save the planet. Their track record and anti-pragmatic approach demonstrates one thing above all else: environmentalism is still dead. It's time to lead or leave, and until greens are ready to grow up, we shouldn't take their marching orders. The moment is simply too urgent.
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Since 2004, greens have risen slowly but surely from "The Death of Environmentalism" pronounced by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. "An Inconvenient Truth," a new Democratic Congress, the green marketing frenzy - it seemed that greens had risen from the grave throwing punches, and it was only a matter of time before the final "tipping point" on global warming action was reached.
But this summer, environmentalism's coffin was buried once again. The failure of Lieberman-Warner in June was just the beginning -- two years ago, it would have been inconceivable for Democrats to cave in on offshore drilling, or for greens to oppose an energy bill crafted by Democrats. Environmentalists were completely destroyed by "drill, baby, drill." Indeed, a new era of escalating energy prices and economic crisis has provoked a paradigm shift in the national political climate.
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