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.
Although it is interesting to see one - time activists reflecting in this way, the reformulation of environmentalism doesn't really address the problems with its initial perspective.
After all, not only does he now seem to some extent sympathetic to the film he was hostile to in 2010, the point is the same as those made in Martin Durkin's films in 1998 and 2007:
environmentalism does humans a disservice.
But it is a problem because it states that the science — real or not — is decisive in the question about «what to do about climate change» in exactly the same way
environmentalism does — it expects science to be instructive.
That is that environmentalism doesn't merely provide the public sector with a ruse for more sustenance in the form of taxes, it also provides them with a raison d'etre.
Not exact matches
Bogusky is one of the biggest players in the advertising industry, and he's got lots of ideas he likes to share with people — especially about
environmentalism, and what people are
doing to innovate in the space.
Much
environmentalism today is like northerners telling southerners what to
do, but not all.
These two books are not comparable in age, sophistication, focus, or intention, but they
do share that «standard brand»
environmentalism I alluded to above, that human interests must be restrained before nature's rights.
First of all, are you seriously saying that
environmentalism is a bad thing, and that we should just destroy this planet, rather than
doing what we can to try to save it?
It
does not value
environmentalism for its own sake; it seeks «transformation.»
But however influential Schumacher's work may have been a decade ago, Rubin would have
done better to offer a detailed analysis of the current strains influencing
environmentalism, including «environmental justice» or the animal rights movement.
And an evolutionary imperative could easily motivate
environmentalism (better than Christianity seems to
do, in any case).
So just how
does an individual, who is supposedly wrapped in religion, possibly confuse «theology» with «radical
environmentalism»?
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.
How
do you demonstrate that
environmentalism is central to loving human neighbors when many dismiss it as being about whales and trees?
Observant Jews don't view Reform Jews as «defectors», they view them as misinterpreting Torah, and drawing incorrect connections between Torah and Marxist ideals such as
environmentalism that
do not exist.
If it fits your (certainly reasonable) ideals of peacefulness,
environmentalism, etc., it's OK; if you don't understand or resonate with something, it's out.
In light of all that, I don't know if you can draw the correlation of Reform Jew, Marxism and
environmentalism.
So, back to
environmentalism, Easter, and the question: What in the world
do they have to
do with each other?
Population growth, now at roughly 78 million extra people per year, is the don't - go - there zone of modern
environmentalism and political discourse.
Environmentalists who litter
do not by
doing so disprove the claims of
environmentalism.
Steve: Tell you a quick story, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh once, which I
do as an exercise every once in a while, and he was talking about how, you know,
environmentalism is a sham because this is actually what he said: «How can we believe, how can humans believe that we could possibly damage something that God made?»
But it didn't keep him off the basketball court in the late 1960s, when
environmentalism was leaping skyward and his sneakers squeaked as a freshman player at Brown University.
I work full time on that, and its sometime crazy
do be immersed in both the worlds of fashion and blogging and
environmentalism simultaneously, as they sometimes butt heads!
When it begins Thursday night with a story of international rivalry and cult - of - hothead - personality (tennis drama «Borg / McEnroe» with Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe)-- and continues over the following 10 days with movies about race,
environmentalism, globalism, feminism and politics — TIFF will engage with the current moment as few cultural events
do.
I heard a good comment from a guy from Greenpeace when asked what someone should
do to get involved with cutting edge
environmentalism, meaning how to get into anti-whale campaigns instead of sitting on the sidelines.
Where
does your interest in
environmentalism originate?
The Queens Museum has survey of another innovator in «Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art,» * a survey of an artist who has, since the 1960s, combined feminism,
environmentalism and labor activism in private and public art projects, some
done in her role as the New York City Department of Sanitation's official (though unsalaried) artist in residence.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, right, combined feminism,
environmentalism and labor activism in art projects, some
done in her role as the New York City Department of Sanitation's artist in residence.
What
do you make of these associations with consumerism,
environmentalism, or whatever?
In many cases they don't like
environmentalism or taxes etc, so there will be some ideological baggage leading to deliberate denial of the science.
At the time, it wasn't about
environmentalism... it was about politics and both sides of the Cold War making sure the other didn't get an advantage.
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.
There's much about 20th - century - style
environmentalism that doesn't work in this era.
Ultimately,
environmentalism stems from acts of
doing less: less consumption, less commuting, less carbon emissions, less wastefulness, less carelessness.»
I don't discuss it my response because it's a scholarship rather than a political / environmental issue, but Kareiva's amateurish portrayal of
environmentalism stems in part from his lack of understanding of rigor in the humanities.
I have too often heard people misconstrue
environmentalism as mainly to
do with saving the polar - bears, or baby seals, etc..
He launched the book, but
did so with a stinging critique of what he regarded as its «shallow»
environmentalism.
They point to the New Apollo Alliance as a model new approach and, in a startling leap of logic, propose to
do away with
environmentalism.
Much of
environmentalism stems out of
do - goodery and self - righteousness.
To be very clear, the climate crisis demands a «new
environmentalism,» and such a thing
does seem to be emerging.
Oakley experienced the personal attacks of any who don't agree with Suzuki's
environmentalism.
Klaus described
environmentalism as a new collectivist religion that doesn't just want to change the climate, but us as well.
With extreme
environmentalism as their new religion, they don't give two - schitts about the Constitution or personal liberty and responsibility.
He doesn't downplay threats to biodiversity, but he is tired of the unceasing gloom - and - doom narrative that
environmentalism has advanced for the past quarter century.
While I'm not entirely in ideological agreement with you, I have been saying for years that the global warming issue has and continues to
do harm to both science and
environmentalism.
I don't think that the aesthetics of the
environmentalism movement should be the main driver of people's decisions with regard to the environment, any more than the aesthetics of libertarianism should decide what people
do about their civil liberties.
If we don't
do as «science» (
environmentalism) says, then catastrophe awaits.
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.
Thus, scepticism makes a concession to
environmentalism: all you need is the right science, and then you'll know what to
do.