Enviro group president bashes green movement for ‘shrillness’

Late last year, Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp suggested it was time to take the gloves off – at least one anyway – against industry following the Senate collapse of climate change legislation. On Monday, he slugged environmentalists too. Greenwire (subscription req’d) reports from Laguna Niguel, California: Environmental groups have too often approached climate change politics with an air of disdain for their opponents, and that must change if major federal legislation is going to advance, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund said yesterday. With neither a comprehensive energy policy nor a carbon cap-and-trade bill moving in Congress, EDF President Fred Krupp said advocates must reassess their strategy and perhaps adopt a less arrogant approach that takes into account all sides of the global warming debate. "There has to be a lot of shrillness taken out of our language," Krupp said yesterday, during Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Green conference here. "In the environmental community, we have to be more humble. We can't take the attitude that we have all the answers."...more