The environmental movement has since the 60's been invaded by the hippie left, that turns all political problems to a discussion about victims. Instead of in a concrete way getting on with dealing with the fundamental environmental problems (overpopulation, industrial and urban expansion, consumer culture), they choose to glorify the suffering of animals and humans to create an impotence OH GOD WE'RE SUFFERING-culture. The sentimentality scares away serious environmental activists and create the illusion that the climate is our biggest and only environmental problem. The climate changes are products of our industrial societies, that keeps expanding and growing in absurdum. If one does not address the problems with industrial, urban and economical expansion, together with the unstable expansion of the population, you're not a serious environmental activist, end. The climate change has it's victims - and? So does age, obesity, war, starvation, poverty, car accidents, cancer, wild animals, snow storms, hurricanes, serial killers, drugs and alcohol. The in this case is more that it's not *enough* people dying - we are 6,7 million people on earth and are expected to be over nine million the year 2050. It's hard to even imagine the difficult problems we will have with water supply, poverty, food war and social misery. But for the ''brave'' environmental hippie activists who play symbolically dead to get their daily kick out of being a victim of oppression, the climate is the only problem. Maybe because they deep inside know that it's a struggle they will never win. Therefore, hippie environmentalists of the victim-culture do things like symbolically pretending to be dead on the ground like in a pointless protest in Malmö lately, rather than planting trees or inform people about the importance of reducing the world population to a reasonable level.
Yep. Cuz hippies never plant trees... it's not like any treeplanter groups I haven't seen wasn't full of gorram peacniks. Actually, reading everything in that second paragraph is helarious, and very incorrect. You are not very familiar with hippies, it seems. At all.
I'd think most enviro activists DO see rapid climate change as an outgrowth of the industrial world, and the population explosion that happened. I know most posters here argue for human population control. Since the moneymakers, developers and industrialists don't care IF life is impacted (suffers), and their selfishness/enslavement to the economic system keeps them from considering the alternatives, sentiment is used (and it is used on both side: the specter of marketing) to engage the people in the middle. I also think the "polluters" know it, since they fight so hard to discredit the real science that points to their culpability in the acceleration of change. If sentiment opens the debate, fine. again, public activist/protest is to open debate and spotlight issues. industrialism is a cancer. it is a good idea (cell) gone mad with it's own power, so to speak. water supply problems, at least in the American West, where the majority of my writing and research is done, is based on human industry screwing up the water shed, diverting major rivers (like the Colorado, which no longer meets the sea), and cramming too many damn people on the face of the planet. Personally, I've protested/ been in public actions. I've written articles. I've had long discussions with lawmakers, state and national. I support organizations that lobby. I make personal choices, and changes based on living lighter on the earth. And yes, I plant trees. I have worked in burn areas and in reclaiming urban lots. I would not call my work ineffective. I would say there's much more to do.