In his book, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, and its companion PBS documentary, the author Philip Shabecoff describes three waves of environmental movements in the United...

In his book, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, and its companion PBS documentary, the author Philip Shabecoff describes three waves of environmental movements in the United States, claiming that a fourth wave is necessary, one that should seek to “green” the political system following the same priorities that other countries have set to successfully implement such changes. What countries and political systems have managed to “tame their machines and make them useful without being harmful”?