Sentences with word «environmentalism»

Rupert Darwall's (He of the Age of Global Warming, a comprehensive takedown fully referenced and annotated of CAGW) recent «Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex» which documents the rise of environmentalism courtesy of the Nazis.

The main theme of his talk is the political use of environmentalism as a religion for indoctrination and control.

Green thumbs in New York and around the world are planting the flag for environmentalism along with roof gardens and native trees as part of two participatory art projects that combine green activism with the power of social

We like talking about frugality at TreeHugger because it's where practical lifestyle decisions intersect with environmentalism in an unexpected way.

Laurie Dougherty, a frequent contributor, wrote this response to a comment on environmentalism as religion:

The success of modern environmentalism hinges on victories in the political arena, and will depend to some extent on how well we are able to understand with those who disagree with us, to communicate why we want to keep our children's children from despising us for «wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate.»

It is based in the rise of radical environmentalism in the 1970s, and the convergence of a lot of interest groups around a theme which serves many different, and sometimes conflicting, objectives.

When George W. Bush stood in front of a giant sequoia in California in May of 2001 and spoke of «a new environmentalism for the 21st century,» that would, «protect the claims of nature while also protecting the legal rights of property owners,» Gail Norton was by his side nodding approvingly.

Meanwhile, however, I'm wondering if any critics of environmentalism from universities in developing economies will be allowed to the party.

In the same way, the scientific consensus allows politicians to hide from debate and from criticism, to dismiss critics of political environmentalism as «deniers», no matter the substance of their criticism.

People who use environmentalism as an excuse to take us back to the dark ages are described here:

We are helping to bring conservation and grassroots environmentalism into the 21st century through cutting - edge media and the latest in technological innovation.

One of the most effective ways to promote environmentalism in mainstream culture is to popularize it through the entertainment industry.

«Better to err on the side of life than on the side of oblivion,» is his line, with no time for the «reasonable» school of environmentalism which seeks a balance between economic development and protecting the wilderness.

And now that smart phones make up a large chunk of the cell phones being used worldwide, people and organizations have even greater tools for environmentalism at their fingertips.

With the poor outcome of COP18 just a couple of weeks past, and even further evidence that we've pretty much run out of time to avoid a good deal of dangerous effects from climate change, the question of what does environmentalism do now is even more important than ever.

Modern American environmentalism shares two unusual characteristics with the animal advocacy movement: a need for allies to speak on behalf of those who lack political power of their own (ecosystems, farmed animals) and a strong focus on consumer change (recycling, veganism).

Last year the Breakthrough Institute, the pragmatic think tank that's been a thorn in the side of traditional environmentalism since its inception in 2003, published an essay by Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy; Robert Lalasz, TNC's director of science communications; and Michelle Marvier, an ecologist at Santa Clara University.

Robert, we don't think environmentalism safely belongs in any category as such, other than its own, to which others — superficially Left and Right — have joined to varying degrees.

Nearly every part of our society in fact, continuously pushes us towards consumerism and growth making the message of environmentalism so much harder for people to understand.

Really, it's an example of grassroots environmentalism at its best.In 1962, Senator Gaylord Nelson decided the environment needed to take a bigger priority in politics, so he convinced President Kennedy to do a national conservation tour.

Very few include environmentalism as one of the first points in their book, and continue to weave a low - waste lifestyle throughout the book.

In many ways, the first Earth Day in 1970 marked the beginning of the modern environmentalism movement.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, the Marshall Institute has adapted to the times by devoting much of its firepower to the war against environmentalism, and in particular against the «scaremongers» who raise warnings about global warming.

There's a coherent discussion to be had about all of this, necessarily starting with how environmentalism is defined, but IMO Foley's vague thoughts are a poor place to begin.

We have very effectively scared people, but we don't know what to tell them once we have them scared, which in the end could rebound fairly severely on not just environmentalism, but environmental science.

His project is to refocus Christian environmentalism from a formation around the doctrine of creation to one around views of salvation, which, he says, is the natural language of people who find a saving, healing experience in encounters with nature.

Aren't family nature, and environmentalism tenets of faith beyond the Jewish world...» From this, any Jew with half a brain can conclude that she is a «Reform» where they worship Marx more than Torah.

While their influence extends, so the opportunities to challenge environmentalism through the political process diminishes.

If environmentalism does nothing else, it forces you to stop and wonder, do words still mean anything?

Deep ecologism was giving way to a form of seemingly pragmatic environmentalism, or climate - centricism — a form that is more palatable to the establishment.

Much environmentalism today is like northerners telling southerners what to do, but not all.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

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