The Idols of Environmentalism

by: Curtis White

Topics: Environment, Community Building, Social Movement Theory

Collection: solidarityrevolutionarycenter; additional_collections

Environmental destruction proceeds apace in spite of all the warnings, the good science, the 501(c)(3) organizations with their memberships in the millions, the poll results, and the martyrs perched high in the branches of squoias or shot dead in the Amazon. This is so not because of a power that we must resist. It is because we are weak and fearful. Only a weak and fearful society could invest so much desperate energy in protection activities that are the equivalent of suicide.