Rise of the neo-greens

Abstract

I HAVE BEEN (AND STILL AM) someone rather often quaintly known as a "green activist for around twenty years now: for a lot longer than some people, and for a lot less time than many others. I sometimes like to say that the green movement was born in the same year as me-1972, the year in which the fabled Limits to Growth report was published by the Club of Rome-and this is near enough to the truth to be a jumping-off point for a narrative.