The Environmentalist's Dilemma

Short Description

In The Environmentalist’s Dilemma, award-winning journalist Arno Kopecky zeroes in on the core predicament of our times: the planet may be dying, but humanity’s doing better than ever. Inquisitive and relatable, he guides us through the moral minefields of our polarized world.

Sales and Market Bullets

The Environmentalist’s Dilemma is lively, intelligent, and nuanced. As both a journalist and a father, Kopecky writes from a moderate, reasonable, and very human point of view.
Kopecky is the author of two previous books, including The Oil Man and the Sea, winner of the 2014 Edna Staebler Award and shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, the Governor General’s Non-Fiction Award, the Lane Anderson Award, and the Banff Mountain Book Competition for Adventure Travel.
Kopecky has been published in the Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, Maclean’s, The Tyee, Foreign Policy, HuffPost, and more.
For readers of We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer and Under a White Sky by Elisabeth Kolbert, and for readers of The Atlantic
Arno Kopecky was born in Germany and speaks German and Spanish.

Audience

Public radio listeners
Readers of The Atlantic
Readers of Rebecca Solnit
People who write letters to the editor and read the opinion section
People who watch The Daily Show and Bill Maher and want to argue with their family at Thanksgiving
Readers of We Are the Weather
Educated, middle class, liberal but not extremely left, skeptical of the ultra-woke left
Urban parents