| Guardian: Eighteen years ago, Jonathon Porritt, then and now one of Britain's best-known environmentalists, co-wrote a book called The Coming of the Greens. The late-80s surge in green consciousness in Britain was well under way, but the book was a judicious mix of optimism and pessimism. It concluded with a discussion of what Porritt called "the brinkmanship theory" of green campaigning. "Only when a major catastrophe looms," he wrote, "will the necessary international ... |
