Sentences with phrase «just environmentalism»

I think this shows some of the limitations of contemporary politics, not just environmentalism.

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.

Not exact matches

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?

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.

Free trade and rising environmentalism are just two examples of secular trends.

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.»

There, Sewell Chan just noted an intense discussion that took place Tuesday night as a panel explored environmentalism at the New York Public Library.

America's cities — and not just the usual Pacific suspects like Portland and San Francisco — have increasingly begun to embrace the mantle of sustainability as a guiding developmental priority, and in the process, have rapidly changed the identity of environmentalism itself.

No matter that environmentalism isn't just about carbon, that quality and taste matter, and that the local food distribution system is nascent and obviously needs work.

Im interested in the overall philosophy of environmentalism (so is Killian we just disagree on some things).

This is not just the politics of fear (which by the way is used far more by the right to promote war and secrecy and torture than the left to promote environmentalism) but politics by misrepresentation.

Just calling environmentalism «a new religion» misses the point I think, since religion demands a conscious decision on the part of its believers.

More importantly, second, it fires a shot across the bows of any liberal organ which dares to entertain a climate sceptic on its pages in much the same way as Martin Durkin's Great Global Warming Swindle (just 90 minutes of TV in a shedule jam - packed with environmentalism) drew furious comments about Channel 4 from the Great and the Good.

Today we present Part II of Ken Ward's response to «The Death of Environmentalism,» in which he argues that greens should reject the political position embedded in Lakoff's framing analysis — namely, that environmentalism is just one more single - issue liberal...

Climate change can't just be a problem that could be managed within any number of political systems — it has to be a total, encompassing, terminal crisis, that mandates a particular response: political environmentalism.

Using the example of rainbow fish, a species valuable to seaside municipalities because of its ability to produce sand (just one rainbow fish can produce a ton of sand each year) Lau explains that environmentalism is just as...

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

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.

Fortunately, there's a sweetener — facing it may be just the way to assist the rebirth of American environmentalism.

The idea, immortalised in Orwell's crack about vegetarians and sandal werarers, is that environmentalism is just an update of nineteenth century romanticism — a foolish fantasy at best and a middle class cause at worst.

It would make it harder to hide environmentalism's political and ethical claims, perhaps, but it would be no guarantee, either of that or a bit more reflection on certain claims and why they exist, not just in the climate debate, but more widely also.

The Post Carbon Institute film was a concentrated summary of everything that's wrong, not just with environmentalism, but with the whole liberal left (of which I count myself a member, more or less).

But it is not just the failure to predict the future that causes environmentalism bad PR; explaining the present is a problem for them too.

Moreover, just as environmentalism has steadily increased its political power, it has cast its net over an increasingly wide circle of science.

Just as it was environmentalism's political failure that preceded Lynas's revision of its scientific basis, environmentalism's political idea — its ideology — precedes the science.

Just as each major UK political party has absorbed environmentalism into its manifesto, so too have journalists used it to inform the entirety of their own perspective on the world.

So it should be no surprise that, just as the subjects in the experiment felt entitled to lie and cheat, so it goes that politicians, journalists and other environmental activists do not feel bound by conventions and norms when they embrace environmentalism.

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

It vanishes when you find the necessity for doing it is just more phony - baloney from the warped, science deprived minds of these would be saviors of our planet, the religion of environmentalism.

The original point of environmentalism was buffering nature from all human intrusions and toxins, not just fighting a specific type of pollution (that allows pseudo-green machines to exist).

But a closer look at the causes of the green bubble reveals a more complicated story, not just about the nature of environmentalism but about modern American life itself.

Since Madrigal was just interviewed for the latest edition of TreeHugger Radio (available on iTunes, or for your listening pleasure directly on the site here), I'll skip over the myriad examples of people dedicated to developing solar power, geothermal power, and wind turbines (a 1 MW one in Vermont back in 1945 even) long before environmentalism was even called by that name.

That was just before the Sochi Olympic Games, which the International Olympic Committee touted as a watershed moment for Russian environmentalism.

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.

The Academy Awards may be over a month away still, but the Oscar nominations have just been announced and environmentalism is center stage.