Today environmental advocacy groups are mired in Washington politics, bureaucratic infighting and corrupt insider-dealing. Some green activists fear their movement is losing its vision. But Bonner R. Cohen, a veteran observer of the movement, argues that the problem is the movement's hardening of vision. Environmental groups are determined to impose their priorities on every segment of society, and they have grown increasingly powerful in Washington and at the United Nations, and influential in corporate boardrooms, in churches and with the media.

The Green Wave: Environmentalism and it Consequences describes how activists created an ideology that now dominates public debate¯and a movement of nonprofit groups that is well-organized and well-funded. Whether the issue is energy exploration or agricultural production, public land use or private property rights, business ethics or government policies, advocates of "the environment" insist that their concerns must always come first. And they usually get their way.

Bonner Cohen's The Green Wave is a must-reading. It masterfully exposes the inner workings of the nonprofit groups and foundation philanthropies that set the environmental agenda¯and shape our daily lives. 240 pages including index and reference material.