ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the context of environmental opposition in the US, and explains empirical observation of the environmental skepticism is a coherent counter-movement to environmentalism. It examines what environmental skepticism is, to its function as a global anti-environmental counter-movement and the key elements of its preoccupation besides the rejection of ecological science. The chapter also examines what the environmental skepticism counter-movement means for politics and public life. Environmental skepticism is a position that rejects the authenticity of either varied or single issue ecological problems. Michael Coffman's discussion below argues the representative claim that the ecological concerns have been generated by what he calls pseudoscience. Skeptics often believe that regulation is capricious not only because it is being based on the pseudoscience but because they see the market as the principal agent of a fair and right political economy.
