Sentences with phrase «political environmentalism»

Lucas demonstrates how political environmentalism uses superficially plausible scientific arguments to create fear and political legitimacy.

Gummer has long struck me as the epitome of political environmentalism.

Political environmentalism has never been challenged by any UK party, let alone the climate science questioned.

Worst still, these prejudices are the tenets of political environmentalism.

As we have reported, political environmentalism has not won any political contest in the UK, it has merely been absorbed by struggling political parties.

Before climate change became the dominant narrative of political environmentalism, the principle issues were «limits to growth» and «the population bomb».

But really, it's the premise of political environmentalism.

Accordingly, they tell the story backwards, from the present: environmentalism is at odds with conservative thinking; that Thatcher proposed «there is no such thing as society» and invented individualism; that such individualism is apart from, and opposed to global political environmentalism rather than essential to its thinking; and that climate change politics began in Magdalen College in 1978.

The problem for Lewandowsky is that if the observation that academia and its institutions have been colonised by political environmentalism is true to any extent, there would exist a barrier against dissent passing peer review.

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.

It is perfectly legitimate to argue that that global warming has achieved such prominence not because of scientific certainty, but because of activism, and because of political environmentalism.

Not exact matches

Rubin, a professor of political science at Duquesne University, assesses environmentalism from the standpoint of liberal constitutionalism; he notes that major environmentalists aspire to transform every segment of human existence, from our economic transactions to our private lives.

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

Population growth, now at roughly 78 million extra people per year, is the don't - go - there zone of modern environmentalism and political discourse.

By his very presence on the Democratic ticket, he has intruded environmentalism into the American political agenda as a major issue.

Political conservatives become more open to environmentalism after seeing climate change messages rooted in nostalgia, found a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

«The fact that fossil energy and mining are viewed by political «elites» with disfavor, a view driven by acolytes of radical environmentalism, has resulted in damaging laws and regulation and general neglect»

There's a political undercurrent to «Le Peuple Migrateur», too, as it subtly but effectively makes a case for environmentalism.

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).

The entrance has been re-activated as one of many elements within the exhibition which draws on themes related to environmentalism, the Commons and political ecology.

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.

Drawing from the male - dominated field of Land Art infused with her political sensibility and recurring references to her Latin American heritage, her experiments in film and video are celebrated for their prescient and piecing take on such relevant issues as campus sexual assault, environmentalism, and the challenges of preserving identity in a homogenizing society.

Conceptual artist and political activist Ai contributes the structural installation Forever, celebrating the disruptive power of bicycles in a world of climate change concerns and environmentalism.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

The usual tactic is to falsely equate environmentalists, environmentalism and their political positions with extremism.

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.

In the political climate engendered by environmentalism and its exploitation some wanted a new world order and believe this is achieved by shutting down the industrialized nations.

It is in this atmosphere of political (and moral) exhaustion that environmentalism has thrived.

Yet journalists will attribute any phenomenon to anthropogenic global warming if it's an opportunity to etch the political messages of environmentalism into our minds, even if it flatly contradicts what they told us yesterday.

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...

They used environmentalism and science for a political agenda and as Michael Crichton said,

Environmentalists have used environmentalism and environmental science for a political agenda.

The trouble with touting such psychological explanations is that it makes environmentalism unchallengeable on political grounds.

The use of science to limit political possibilities, and lower our horizons by constructing plausible catastrophic scenarios is the everyday language of environmentalism.

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

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.

But this paradigm is central to the political push by environmentalism for dominance of energy policy.

«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.

People who use the environment as a vehicle for political control have not quite destroyed environmentalism.

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.

This blog has argued that, whether or not the climate is changing, there is no need for special political institutions, or special forms of politics (i.e. environmentalism) to cope with the problems of the environment and changes within it.

Of course, climate orthodoxy and environmentalism can be challenged from political or ideological perspectives.

Referencing a wide array of current political and environmental work, Nordhaus and Shellenberger show how current pop - environmentalism (think Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth) is mired in a «pollution paradigm... profoundly inadequate for understanding and dealing with global warming.»

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.

Noting a connection between the failures of environmentalism and the failures of the entire left - leaning political agenda, the authors point the way toward an aspirational politics that will resonate with modern American values and be capable of tackling our most pressing challenges.

So while sceptics have attempted to challenge climate politics by questioning climate science and the over-statement of its consequences, this approach leaves the political character of environmentalism unchallenged.

«In the end, the original AlGore / AGW / Mann Hockey Stick media / political activist model was counter-productive to the cause of environmentalism for many, many reasons»

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.

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

However, because Thatcher didn't really understand the nature of the conflict between environmentalism — which is the political expression of the old rent seeking land - based oliogarchy Vs the newer industrial oligarchy — things haven't quite gone to plan.