Green Morality

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“An easy-to-read must-read for all who love our planet and want to know the truth about what is happening to it. Flattau does a deft job of navigating through the misinformation and disinformation of the bad actors.”

– Alex Shoumatoff, contributing editor and veteran environmental correspondent, Vanity Fair, author/editor of DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com

“Green Morality is a manifesto for true environmental sustainability. It reminds all people – government officials, corporate leaders and everyday citizens – why a healthy relationship with our planet is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do. I am hopeful it will marry liberals who seek creative solutions with conservatives who are cautious about thoughtless change. Flattau explains how without more thoughtful solutions to our current way of living, our home for the last ten thousand plus years may never recover.”
– William J. Snape, III, environmental lawyer and senior counsel at the Center For Biological Diversity

“Flattau draws a complex picture of interacting forces—political, economic and ethical—working against our environmental well-being. Consumption and waste are a big part of the problem—at least among the developed world. . . Flattau cuts to the chase, laying out problems and solutions in equal measure. In the case of consumption patterns, he suggests a few forces that can work for good, from necessary downsizing in harsh economic times to political leaders who take action to curb climate change.”
–Rebecca Webster, E – The Environmental Magazine

“A must read for every Member of Congress, lobbyist and every reporter who covers them. If you want the ‘inside-scoop’ of how and why environmental decisions are made in the political arena and what you should be doing about it – ‘Green Morality’ is the roadmap!”
–The Honorable Claudine Schneider, former U.S. Representative (R-R.I.)

Green Morality, renowned environmental columnist’s Edward Flattau’s fourth book, is a thorough and timely exploration of mankind’s moral obligation to create an environmentally sustainable global society. Along the way, he confronts moral hypocrisy, failed environmental movements and policies, globally disastrous scenarios, and reckless endangerment of the world’s species. The exploration of destructive and immoral environmental behavior includes coverage of numerous often little publicized actions that have adversely affected humanity and lower life forms. To avoid ultimate wholesale, permanent environmental destruction, Flattau advocates a major realignment of our value system and economic infrastructure, all in the name of creating an environmentally, economically sustainable society.

Crossing political and cultural boundaries, Flattau portrays environmentalism as a universal moral imperative that every person has a duty to uphold, not only for the salvation of the modern society, but for the entire planet. The analysis of environmentalism’s current situation and its history throughout the twentieth century uncovering the devastation committed by individuals, corporations and governments to the world’s species and fellow humans. In the process, he demonstrates how these destructive actions conflict with the very values that the offending parties espouse.

Flattau delivers starkly eminent solutions to avert environmental destruction that require a re-alignment of modern society’s value system and economic structure, transcending historical, political or institutional obligations.

The book will be available in September, 2010.

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Additional Media Coverage

• Green is Good Radio: “Green Morality’s theme is simple: Everyone has a moral obligation to leave the world in as good or better shape than when they found it. Flattau, with nearly 40 years of experience in the matter, is the perfect journalist to take on the moralistic vision.”
• KIAH TV, Houston: News release posted by Yolanda Green for the “Going Green with Yolanda Green” section.
• DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld: Vanity Fair writer Alex Shoumatoff posted a statement on Green Morality.
• E – The Environmental Magazine: Online posting of the July-August 2010 issue’s Green Morality review.