Sentences with phrase «environmentalism movement»

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.

My view is that over the decades, the environmentalism movement has fucked over a lot of people.

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

Not exact matches

In 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book - length critique of «the ecology movement» that was then in ascendancy and that pretty much shaped the arguments that continue to swirl around the varieties of environmentalism today.

Put differently, by the end of the 1960s environmentalism was applying for full membership in the movement.

Acknowledging this, however, would call into question the revelation vouchsafed to another of the new environmentalism's ideological allies, the population - control movement: namely, that people are a pollutant» a pernicious idea, born of the earlier progressivist eugenics movement and brought to a popular boil in the Sixties by evidence - light propagandists like Paul Ehrlich, that continues to affect U.S. foreign - aid policy to this day.

The new environmentalism was peopled by many of the same activists who had been instrumental in the anti-America's - war - in - Vietnam movement, and, in subsequent decades, the new environmentalism has displayed characteristics similar to the fundamentalism or fideism of those who cling to the wreckage of the conventional narrative of America - in - Vietnam.

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

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

Stoll believes that the lack of religious faith in today's environmental movement has left it weak and divided: «Presbyterianism wilts and environmentalism droops.»

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.

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.

The organic movement arose as part of a wave of environmentalism that sprang up in opposition to the industrialisation of British agriculture that occurred in the immediate post-war years.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

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).

Pilgrim hopes to make research, conversation and dialogue that explores Japanese artistic movements relating to Feminist, Activist and Socially engaged practice to develop a series of choreographic methodologies and music questioning how environmentalism provides a basis for social and political emancipation.

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.

In so many cases, as exhibited by the constantly growing eco-justice movement, environmentalism and human rights can not be separated.

Every year it reminds us that, as a movement, environmentalism is holding strong.

I have said it before, and I will say it again, and I'm sure your church of environmentalism can't stand to hear it, but the AGW theory and the entire environmentalist movement is not about «saving the planet», but controlling others.

I hope environmentalism comes to be understood as a matter of straightforward self - interest rather than a cause or movement.

This might sound strange, for environmentalism and the ecology movement were terms that were practically interchangeable in the 1960s.

From Dark Mountain's rejection of environmentalism, through the dangers of disasterbation, to an obsession with individual impact as opposed to collective action, I can't help feeling like much of the green movement is missing something.

My province is the Canadian, and perhaps the North American, epicenter of two important social movements — environmentalism and rights activism by aboriginal peoples.»

In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé — a giant of the environmental movement — confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism.

«Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, recently declared «the death of environmentalism,» generating quite a buzz... Whether or not environmentalism is dead, dying, or in some kind of undead zombie state, new voices within the environmental and conservation movements are arguing for a wholly new kind of movement that entails recovering values of another, more conservative America.

With climate change now more and more an establishment concern, and attempts to avert it now increasingly institutionalized in the established order, some have pointed to the «death of environmentalism» as an oppositional movement in society.12 However, if some environmentalists have moved toward capitalist - based strategies in the vain hope of saving the planet by these means, others have moved in the opposite direction: toward a critique of capitalism as inherently ecologically destructive.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

The climate change debate arose from a big push by a major political movement — environmentalism.

Cancer has always been, and remains, the ultimate bogeyman of environmentalism, a fixation that reflects how the environmental movement arose from our 1950s fear of nuclear weapons and the carcinogenic radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.

«the most successful political movement of the past few decades, environmentalism, has relied so heavily on apocalypse: on the suspension of rational risk assessments, and the stimulation of wild, runaway fantasies.

And such a comparison, in the hands of a thoughtful person like Rosenbaum, may be enlightening, just as a comparison of the rise of environmentalism with the rise of other eccentric political movements appealing to people's anxieties and seeking scapegoats to blame may be enlightening.

This is consistent with the thinking that environmentalism is really an anti-capitalist global movement more than anything else:

We should note that environmentalism has not been nearly so successfully transmitted through less well - heeled strata of British society, much to the frustration of environmentalists, whose failure to build a mass movement has resulted in their turning against the masses.

Like most ideologies or political movements, environmentalism has always contained different strands and shades of opinion.

This sleight - of - hand happens time and again in environmentalism — a movement that could be defined by its loss of boundaries.

Recent developments (before the US election) have left me worried that there is a broken culture in Toronto environmentalism, and perhaps the environmental movement more generally.

As I will be writing a lot about environmentalism on this site, I would first like to offer some reasons why Christians should be concerned both with environmentalism and the corresponding environmental movement.

Grueso has been widely perceived as one of the most inspiring leaders at the forefront of Latin America's «Black environmentalism» movement, one of the most exciting and important grassroots movements in recent times for championing human rights and the environment against the pressures of the global economy and military repression.

As defined by Dr. Bullard, «The environmental justice movement has basically redefined what environmentalism is all about.

We've said it many times... environmentalism has not risen to prominence through its own energies: it has not developed from a mass movement; it isn't representative of popular interests.

Their semi-monthly newsletter, «Citizen Outlook,» includes an update on news from the environmental movement called «From the Dark Side,» a title indicative of the contempt CFACT's members have for all facets of environmentalism.

For the shift in the American environmental movement from aesthetic environmentalism to regulatory environmentalism wasn't just a change in political strategy.

«it is particularly evident that environmentalism has not advanced through debate, and is not born out of democratic engagement in the way other political ideas and movements became established.»

And one needs to be especially stupid not to be able to see climate alarmism in the context of a movement that began with population and resource - centric environmentalism championed by the likes of Paul Ehrlich.

While this trait isn't unique to environmentalism, of course, it is particularly evident that environmentalism has not advanced through debate, and is not born out of democratic engagement in the way other political ideas and movements became established.

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.

While DOE critiques the narrow frame of environmentalism (for excluding the «human environment» and failing to connect to larger social, economic, and political issues and dynamics), the paper and ensuing debate suffer from a lack of diverse voices in this ostensible autopsy of the environmental movement.

But the DOE paper itself, as well as subsequent debates about it, left out many important parts of the environmental movement and their contributions to keeping environmentalism alive: environmental - health advocates, the environmental - justice movement, the international «sustainability» movement, and the dozens of other grassroots efforts related to the environment.

Preparing a 20th anniversary edition of my first book helped me realize that environmentalism and feminism both began as reasonable social movements.