The failures of the environmental community have been

(a) giving up on a “no regrets” strategy that concentrates on all the things the majority can agree on whether or not they believe in “global warming”

(b) concentrating on legislative and regulatory action to the exclusion of grassroots empowerment through practical demonstrations of individual and community solutions

(c) not building a united front of organizations all pushing in the same direction at the same time and actually executing a common strategy long-term through a battery of complementary tactics short-term (the environmental community is notorious for not knowing the difference between strategy and tactics)

(d) motivating almost exclusively by fear and thereby building learned helplessness and despair rather than fostering individual and community competence

(e) focusing almost totally on a problem orientation rather than a solutions orientation