The Wrong Kind of Green

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Johann Hari talks about how environmental groups might respond to President Obama’s decision to open up offshore drilling, and he’ll discuss his investigation into conservation groups, such as Conservation International, among the most trusted groups in America to protect and defend nature, are actually cashing in on the world's worst polluters and burying science-based environmentalism in return. His article The Wrong Kind of Green appears in the April issue of The Nation.

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