Product Description: In this important new book on the declining health of one of America's leading environmental treasures, Howard Ernst reveals a Chesapeake bay that has become functionally dead. He argues that the Chesapeake Bay succumbed to a 'light green' environmental movement that has too often adopted a philosophy of compromise over confrontation and that has fueling a 'political dead zone' where political leaders posture but fail to make the hard decisions needed to achieve real improvement in the Bay's health...read more

The author collects images from the current effort to save the Chesapeake Bay region from overdevelopment, portraying the teachers, engineers, writers, farmers, parents, and naturalists who are working in the movement.