Sentences with phrase «environmentalism as»

This blog is concerned mainly with viewing environmentalism as a political phenomenon, thus it is most interested in the first, though occasionally discusses the second.

Opposition Senate Leader Nick Minchin echoed his views a couple of months ago, saying `'» For the extreme Left [global warming] provides the opportunity to do what they've always wanted to do, to sort of deindustrialise the Western world... you know the collapse of communism was a disaster for the Left, and... they embraced environmentalism as their new religion.»

It treats environmentalism as another marketing gimmick, suggesting customers can have their Choc O Treat and eat it, too.

This is one for those people who don't believe labor and social justice issues are intimately tied to green corporate efforts and environmentalism as a movement.

This Monday, September 12th, «The Lazy Environmentalist» will document this new environmentalism as it moves into the mainstream.

Preaching Does Not Help I've noted before that environmentalism as religion will turn off as many people as it inspires, and that even leading by example can become passive aggressive preaching.

TO OBSERVE THAT green bubbles are fueled by the discontent of upper - middle - class liberals is not to dismiss environmentalism as elitist.

The fact may be that individuals can be skeptical and hold different or similar political views in relation to the mainstream of climate science (environmentalism) and it's adherents has nothing to do with the overarching institutional structure and political persuasion of environmentalism as a social movement.

The screening of Against Nature here and in the UK was a considerable coup for right - wing groups that view environmentalism as a threat to capitalism and freedom.

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

Now that he has explained the failure of environmentalism as the consequence of the public's fecklessness, he can no longer make any claim to be at all interested in the public demanding anything from government.

But they ought to see environmentalism as a symptom of that phenomenon, not as some way out of it.

It is a subset of the adoption of environmentalism as a religion.

We frequently have discussions with conservatives about how they have misconceived environmentalism as the continuation of socialism.

It was this process that led to Senator Nick Minchin's notorious declaration last November that, after the collapse of communism, the left embraced environmentalism as a new religion.12

It seems to me that environmentalism as an ideology is as significant a threat to Western Civ as Islam.

It's very interesting but it tends to reinforce the impression that the very able author William Kay is a bit of a Torquemada, aiming to root out environmentalism as a heresy, rather than persuade people of its silliness.

So those on the right side of the political spectrum who portray environmentalism as a religion do so because, if faith is inherently not achievable through rationality, and if environmentalism is a religion, then environmentalism is utterly irrational and must be discredited and ignored.

But it is already «driven by politics and ideology» -LSB-[4]-RSB-; it's simply that Nurse does not recognise environmentalism as political or ideological, and he does not notice himself reproducing environmental politics and ideology.

With extreme environmentalism as their new religion, they don't give two - schitts about the Constitution or personal liberty and responsibility.

Klaus described environmentalism as a new collectivist religion that doesn't just want to change the climate, but us as well.

Indeed, the UN finally dropped environmentalism as the top rationale for its agenda, saying in the final agreement that poverty was now the «greatest global challenge facing the world today.»

I have too often heard people misconstrue environmentalism as mainly to do with saving the polar - bears, or baby seals, etc..

Then I read Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, which explains that many of the key scientists behind the denier movement hold a similar point of view — they are old - school Cold Warriors who came to see fighting environmentalism as a battle to protect «freedom» and the American way of life.

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

Once in December, his newspaper column concluded by asserting that even if geologists decided that there were only three thimbles of oil to be extracted from ANWR, «there would still be something to be said for going down to get them, just to prove that this nation can not be forever paralyzed by people wielding environmentalism as a cover for collectivism.»

The Chief Guest at the event, Dr. Isaac Kalua, founder of Green Africa Foundation, commended the Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund for promoting a generation of young women who embrace the spirit of environmentalism as propagated by Wangari Maathai.

One sentence later, it adds: «Moreover, the advance of science and technology advances environmentalism as well.

This phrase has grown in popularity with Christian leaders as a useful way to frame environmentalism as a biblical concept of being good stewards of the world God created.

There's lots of talk about making the transition to a green economy, and liberals like to sell their anti-carbon environmentalism as a win — win.

These countries see Western environmentalism as a form of neocolonialism, and the fear that ecological concerns will be used to keep the poorer nations in permanent subordination leaps off the pages of UN documents.

OK... modern - day environmentalism as a reboot of old - school worship of «mother earth».

Invoking history, physics, biology, climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on ethics and environmentalism as well as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.

Not exact matches

As an issue, environmentalism has pervaded our society on many levels, from our personal lives to the business sector.

A huge part of Ben & Jerry's brand strength has come from its status as an innovator in the field of corporate social responsibility, combining philanthropy, environmentalism and social activism.

At the same time the Liberal Party, and Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, have made environmentalism a major component of their election platform through a policy initiative known as the Green Shift — an initiative that was the source of considerable discussion and debate in the lead - up to the election.

Also in circles such as the World Council of Churches, environmentalism was patched on to the quilt of peace and justice, and presented as a seamless garment of progressive commitment.

Yet there are also some urgent truths that are being badly mangled in the confused agitations of radical environmentalism or, as it is called, deep ecology.

Organizations, movements, and practices as different as «secular» environmentalism, academic economics, and sports spectacles have religious dimensions.

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Fidel Castro is a controversial and divisive world figure, lauded as a champion of anti-imperialism, humanitarianism, socialism and environmentalism by his supporters, but viewed as a dictator who has overseen multiple human rights abuses by his critics.

Weitzman's actual work on this is more complex and intelligent than a newspaper can reasonably be expected to make clear, but as presented by Krugman, what we are presented with in environmentalism is a straightforward, old - school version of Pascal's Wager.

By contrast «deep» environmentalism — that is, deep ecology — adopts a cooperative perspective, believing that human beings are inseparable from that web of life of which they are a part, and that other members of the web are equally as valuable as humans.

As another example, the ancient worship of «mother earth» is linked to modern - day environmentalism.

Adventures in Missing the Point discusses topics such as salvation, the Bible, seminary, homosexuality, environmentalism, worship, sin, and postmodernism.

It is often (but not always) mobilized politically in support of the Religious Right and culturally in opposition to such movements as feminism, environmentalism and the liberalization of sexual mores.

As political tides changed, corporations became king and environmentalism lost its stylishness in the public consciousness.

When he thinks something is wrong, he lets the world know, as he has just done in his encyclical Laudato Si», in which he champions environmentalism and excoriates materialist consumerism.

Our contemporary concern with environmentalism already implies an insight into the Unity Law of Creation, which in turn points to the Mind of God as its Author.

How do you demonstrate that environmentalism is central to loving human neighbors when many dismiss it as being about whales and trees?