Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist – "Withdrawing"

by yewon 10/28/2023, 9:30:03 PM with 3 comments
  • by tomohawkon 10/28/2023, 11:21:07 PM

    > People I had thought were on my side were arguing aggressively for the industrializing of wild places in the name of human desire. ... Motorway through downland: bad. Wind power station on downland: good. Container port wiping out estuary mudflats: bad. Renewable hydropower barrage wiping out estuary mudflats: good. Destruction minus carbon equals sustainability.

    Exactly right. The industrialization of wild places to satisfy the luxury beliefs of coastal elites is sickening.

  • by hindsightbiason 10/28/2023, 11:08:31 PM

    After a decade of flopping about he decides we all went wrong with The Enlightenment.

    https://unherd.com/2023/05/is-there-anything-left-to-conserv...

    Pray.

  • by schoenon 10/28/2023, 9:54:06 PM

    (2011)