The Issue at a Glance

The Roots of Sustainability (10.1007/s12129-009-9151-5)

Glenn M. Ricketts, National Association of Scholars

In a sweeping history that begins in the 1960s, Prof. Rickets, NAS director of public affairs and tenured historian, investigates how the sustainability movement emerged from the extremes of environmentalism. In considering how these movements diverge, Ricketts points out that what sets “sustainatopians” and environmentalists apart from earlier conservationists is their quasi-mystical claim that “everything is connected to everything else.”

If the Science Is Solid, Why Stoop? An Environmental Scientist Parses Climategate (10.1007/s12129-009-9149-z)

Stanley W. Trimble, University of California at Berkeley

According to Prof. Trimble—soil scientist, UCLA geography professor, and environmentalist—“Climategate is…the greatest science scandal in my lifetime.” He urges that scientific skepticism is the only responsible academic reaction to current revelations about the research behind “climate change theory.”

Under the Green Thumb: Totalitarian