Interview with Gus Speth: Communicating environmental risks in an age of disinformation

Interview with Gus Speth: Communicating environmental risks in an age of disinformation

from Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Bulletin Staff

For more than four decades, Gus Speth has been a major figure in the modern environmental movement -- a movement that he now says is failing. He has worked within nonprofit activist organizations, government bureaucracies, and academia, and moves easily between these realms. In 1970, as a newly minted environmental attorney, he cofounded the Natural Resources Defense Council, which today has a staff of more than 300 lawyers, scientists, and policy experts. In 1982, he founded the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank.