environmentalism

This recycling program is basically a massive tax on the populace, hidden under the guise of environmentalism.

Has anyone else noticed the unusually-high level of indoctrination that goes on regarding recycling/environmentalism in schools?

Carlin's specific bit was about marketing, but the meme took on a life of its own as a simple refutation of environmentalism.

It's about economic growth at all costs, while tooting the horn of environmentalism.

Your comment reminds me how the Catholic Church treated the Bible during the Middle Ages (environmentalism runs so parallel to religion it's uncanny).

Do you also plan to flag every article mentioning Marx, socialism, Chomsky, environmentalism (for or against), etc, etc?

My sense of environmentalism is caring about what's good for the planet, not what ways we can offset the damage we've done.

That's one of the major complaints about consumer-focused environmentalism.

For all the normative claims they make about the need for better environmentalism and economic policies, they sure seem to have difficulty keeping their own house in order.

There's an odd view among opponents of various issues (eg, environmentalism) that if proponents can't do everything, then they're terrible hypocrites who may as well not do anything.

The whole business of environmentalism is post-war.

The slowness of change in the marine ecosystems makes environmentalism a politically difficult platform: good policies do not yield immediately measurable positive results, and while the threat is grave, it is creeping sufficiently slowly for action to be continuously procrastinated.

The hair-shirt environmentalism of laws like "restaurants can only serve you water if you ask" is...

Like environmentalism we need to look at "total cost" before we declare something a net savings of energy.

>Who are the victims in this supposed "crime?" I've been working on this theory harm I tentatively call "moral environmentalism".

Geoengineering and practical solutions to climate issues - as opposed to the rampant, ineffective cult of "environmentalism." Smart minds are working on geoengineering solutions - they just need cash and government support.

Environmentalism is one belief which could power future communities.

Environmentalism seems particularly prone to counterexamples.

Environmentalism and conservationism are about as diametrically opposed in California as it gets: it's one of the prime consumer cultures on the planet, and consumerism is at odds with conservationism, unfortunately.