From the Supreme Court to the White House, Gus Speth helped shape US environmental policy. But, as he tells Liz Else, green values stand no chance against market capitalism
When did you first realise that the environment was in trouble?
I was 12. There was a lake in the mountains of North Carolina where I used to go with my grandparents. We arrived one summer and found that a tannery had dumped its waste into a river that flowed into the lake. The whole thing stank to high heaven and frothed around the edges. I’ll never forget it.
But you…
