But four days after the leak, the environmental commentator George Monbiot said that Jones should resign.
The Independent's Johann Hari was named best environmental commentator, while editor-in-chief Simon Kelner won the chair's choice award.
After years spent battling nuclear-weapon makers, seal hunters, oil consortiums, pesticide manufacturers and angry workers, he had retired from the frontline of protest to become Canada's leading environmental commentator, dividing his time between writing books, doing regular radio reports and lecturing.
George Monbiot is one environmental commentator who remains to be persuaded.
He was little known before the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, but his media savvy helped him become a go-to commentator on environmental issues as the country dealt with the world's second-worst nuclear accident.
Jerry Johnson, President of the National Religious Broadcasters, lambasts the movie for "the insertion of an extremist environmental agenda" and Brian Godawa, a "commentator" on Christian issues, attacked the film as "environmental paganism" made by a self-proclaimed atheist (Daily Telegraph, Entertainment Section, 3/25/2014).
Davis, a native New Yorker, was joined in arguing against the the "failed state" notion by environmental advocate Van Jones and Lawrence O'Donnell, the MSNBC commentator and former West Wing producer who long worked for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Some commentators advocate partnering with environmental activists (5), among others, which might stimulate the social and community perspectives needed to help recast the NCD issues as collective problems in need of social solutions.
It would be snide to question the popular enthusiasm for celebrities' interest in environmental issues or social injustice, but cultural commentator and sometime musician Noel Gallagher had few qualms about this last year.
Ever since, the frothy-mouthed attacks from some of the more extreme media commentators serve to emphasise that this environmental legislation actually matters.
