Can We Let Go of Mother Nature?
https://municion.org/g9rblbrg6gt One of the first and best critiques I read of contemporary environmentalism appeared in a well known progressive magazine. The author took the green movement to task for its romanticization of nature and “its deep suspicion of all things technological.” He also criticized environmentalism’s demonization of biotechnology and the “crusade” waged against it, which he said was built on “a tangle of misperceptions, flaws, and half-truths.”
https://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=3ddpywjqhttps://ballymenachamber.co.uk/?p=i6fnml5ovc This essay was published in the Sept/Oct 1996 issue of Mother Jones magazine. What’s fascinating about the piece is 1) how far ahead of its time it was, and 2) how much of its critique remains just as relevant today.
The author, Walter Truett Anderson, challenged the same green dogma in 1996 that today’s eco-critics, such as Mark Lynas and Emma Marris, have been poking a stick at. It’s amazing to consider how little the green movement has progressed since then. Naturally, greens were as allergic to self-reflection in the mid-1990s as they are today. Read the responses in the letters page from some of the representative voices of environmentalism (at the time).
https://www.salernoformazione.com/4zip5zrhttps://www.salernoformazione.com/mjmovyn When Anderson’s piece was published in the mid-199os, he seemed to anticipate the Anthropocene, or least aspects of it that eco-pragmatists have tried to highlight:
https://hazenfoundation.org/2q38knuj The world is changing very quickly, and we desperately need a vision that engages this new world honestly and creatively, with daring and hope and perhaps even a touch of optimism…The world is becoming more densely populated, not less; more urbanized, not less; more technological, not less. Most important of all, human beings are exerting ever more — not less — power in nature, having a greater impact on ecosystems. This is our world, and this is our work.
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And this is where we live. Do we still need Mother Nature to help us find our way?
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https://www.emilymunday.co.uk/ngp4fu9o7b Wow, that 1996 essay was tremendously prescient. Or, we’ve been in the same exact Groundhog day ever since…. https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/e3lwxl56e I’m afraid we’re all Bill Murray, quite frankly.
https://www.salernoformazione.com/ekui4hgAnd I loved the retro-comment thread (aka letters to the editor, called “Backtalk”). As if the internet really changed anything.
https://municion.org/f16vcgfu75Ambien Online Usa You keep harping on a subset of environmentalists, as if the others never existed. I think it is a form of romanticization (or more appropriately demonization) of the environmental movement that seems to appeal to the jejune journalist you seem to be.
https://www.andrewlhicksjrfoundation.org/uncategorized/2vj5790What about the Aspen Institute? Paul Hawken?
https://yourartbeat.net/2025/03/11/s89fuagihttps://www.tomolpack.com/2025/03/11/cu4z75xprdr The “romantics” you keep criticizing aren’t the only voices out there, nor have they ever been. You purposely ignore the rest, the alternative energy people, the people who come up with designs for buildings that would help green cities, and on and on and on
So what do you have against environmentalism? Why are you purposely trying to undermine all environmentalist thinkers? What is YOUR agenda, since you obviously have one.
https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/ndbtdbihttps://www.andrewlhicksjrfoundation.org/uncategorized/is1gol7hddm And yes, I read the essay, which is just as apropos as it never was. Fallacy of composition again and again, as if Wendell Berry was the environmental movement, or the Renaissance Fair represented what most environmentalists want. It was mediocre then, as it is now.
https://www.scarpellino.com/rgdmpf9x Whistling past the graveyard.
https://www.onoranzefunebriurbino.com/0zly299h Martin Lewis did pretty much the same thing in his 1993 book Green Delusions.
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https://chemxtree.com/a03e49dz0mEnvironmentalism for many greens is their anti-capitalist pseudo-religon. Religious dogmatists and fundamentalists are not known for open minded self reflection.
Ambien Purchasehttps://www.varesewedding.com/dpk7bq6 Take a look back through the blog and find the many slams on the pro-fossil fuels crowd and the ‘turbine syndrome’ nocebo.
https://ottawaphotographer.com/tams795dqy I don’t see what the problem is with calling a spade a spade – there is a very good argument to be made that the Green movement has romanticized, antiquated ideals about nature. Greens have acted as Luddites on issues such as biotechnology and nuclear power. However, I have never seen this blog let AGW-deniers off the hook for their superstitions, manufactured controversy and science-denial.
https://ottawaphotographer.com/505q3998laThe struggle in our society for science is not just about AGW and sustainability, it is a fundamental struggle against superstition, blind-faith, misrepresentation of science in media – the real effects they have on public health, the environment, world poverty, etc. It is not Right versus Left – or ‘my nonsense is better than yours’ – it should be science and reason versus nonsense of all kinds.
https://hazenfoundation.org/3l0swq3eeir I think its genetic. There will always be a certain type of person that is attracted to this belief system and way of thought when they’re exposed to it.