Mark Hertsgaard
Described by Barbara Ehrenreich as "one of America's finest reporters," Mark Hertsgaard has written for the "New Yorker", "Vanity Fair", and "Time", and is author of four books, including "Earth Odyssey". He has traveled the world seeking answers to the question of how to keep humanity alive in the face of global warning. A Soros fellow, he recently attended the Copenhagen Conference, widely considered the most important global meeting in the history of the climate issue."
“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries’ consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world’s resource depletion and ecosystem destruction?”
Mark Hertsgaard