All this could limit the appeal of electric cars to affluent greens living in leafy suburbs.Carmakers cannot overcome these problems on their own.
Focused on ultra-affluent greens, the media, Wall Street and the public sector, gentry liberalism generally gives short shrift to upward mobility, the basic aspiration of the middle class.
Some were made uncomfortable by the way black people were excluded from Ecotopian society: most live in Soul City, which is less affluent and green than the rest of Mr. Callenbach's world.
But the same hard-boiled pol who threw his own pastor under the bus remember Rev. Jeremiah Wright?–would seemingly be willing to diss pesky affluent white greens who, after all, have nowhere else to go politically.
Among the president's affluent backers, the green agenda trumped everything else, but for Americans experiencing "frequent hardship," the financial devastation of medical bills was the more urgent problem, hence Mr. Obama's choice.
We live in a beautiful part of the country, within the commuter belt in a very green and affluent county, yet the complexity of family life and broken people exists no matter what the postcode is.
The areas where students and more affluent people live overwhelmingly voted green, while the eastern parts with more council estates and working class communities almost exclusively voted FPÖ.
Now he is courting a new generation of affluent Koreans who want a greener environment in their neighborhoods, a bet that paid off handsomely in Seoul.
Most wineries break even in seven or eight years on solar-power units that should last for decades.Wineries make an especially good fit for solar power, and not just because going green appeals to their affluent customers.
One study of children living in poor urban environments found that those who relocated to greener (though not more affluent) home surroundings "tended to have the highest levels of cognitive functioning following the move".
