Quayle and Gore on the Environmental Fringes

Quayle and Gore on the Environmental Fringes

James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior, was an environmental paradox. To environmentalists, he personified an obsolete view of nature, a view seeing only commercial value in natural resources. But for the Greens, Watt was a useful icon of rapacious industrial exploitation. As such, he deserves much of the credit for the rise […]

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