The environmental movement is being openly attacked by numerous conservative forces in this country. You have to ask yourself if you're doing something right when people marshal themselves against you in a loud and somewhat orchestrated fashion. It is instructive to parse out the arguments and vitriol. They are bizarre at times but also vivid reflections of how environmentalists appear. I have read numerous anti-environmental essays where half-way through I realize the author is really mostly concerned with wilderness conservationists. I've also read pieces that talk about environmentalists as obstructionists and anti-business because of regulations they are trying to ram through state or federal government. Of course, one man's regulations are another man's opportunities. If, for instance, we passed a law that shut down all coal-fired power plants in the country over the next, say, ten years that didn't meet stringent emissions control requirements, you would be cr...
Commentary on 21st century environmental issues from a cultural and social perspective.