Is the environmental movement losing touch with its feminine side?

[marmar]

from Grist magazine:


Women Are From Earth, Men Are From Terra Firma
Is the environmental movement losing touch with its feminine side?
By Kira Gould and Lance Hosey
31 Jul 2007


This year, Rachel Carson would have turned 100. Had she lived, the "mother of the environmental movement" might have been pleased with how popular environmental causes have become. On the other hand, she might not have liked current shades of green.

The great lesson of Silent Spring, Carson's brilliant critique of the pesticide industry, is that technology requires wisdom more than faith. In recent years, however, discussion about global warming has focused almost exclusively on high-tech hopes, as President Bush's much-repeated remarks from last year's State of the Union address make clear: "America is addicted to oil. The best way to break this addiction is through technology."

Yet our addiction isn't to oil but to consumption, so this view confuses food with appetite. By contrast, Janet Welsh Brown of the World Resources Institute describes a more internal task, writing that "the greatest accomplishment of the environmental movement" is a "revolution in awareness and understanding." And four decades ago, Carson wrote that "we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves." ....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2007/07/31/gould_hosey/index.html

[Dogmudgeon]

1. From RW religion wars to LW sex wars

Progress? What progress?

--p!

[Buzz Clik]

2. Considering the impacts of so many pollutants on the males of various species...

... getting in touch with our feminine side won't be a problem. The challenge will be determining if we remain male enough to continue to reproduce.