Laura, over at Arcol-o-gist, is starting a series of essays on environmentalism. It looks as though it’s going to be interesting and worth following. Here’s a snip:
Chained to a Tree: the Powerless Environmentalist
Environmentalists have been sounding alarms in global terms since at least the 1960s. One might wonder how such an apocalyptic outcry can be sustained over nearly half a century. Is it only noise? If the dire predictions are true, where are the terrible effects? On the other hand, if this is all false scare-mongering, what keeps the environmentalists going at it?
If you take a more sympathetic view of environmentalism, this half century of alarms still presents a glaring question. If these are truly serious problems, and we know so much about them, why aren’t they fixed yet?
