Interesting post by Kieth Kloor on the split between traditionalists and modernists in the environmental movement: If there is a path to a more realistic, hopeful future, the green traditionalist has not advanced it. Getting back to the land was great hippy fun in the 1960s and 1970s. Inveighing against modern civilization and retreating into [...]
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The Trads and the Mods
Posted by skepteco on April 26, 2012
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/the-trads-and-the-mods/
Modernization as the road to salvation
An important essay by The Death of Environmentalism authors Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus appeared in Orion Magazine this week. Entitled Evolve- A case for modernization as the road to salvation, Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that humans have always used technology to solve problems, and that, while technology can of course also cause problems, the [...]
Posted by skepteco on November 17, 2011
http://skepteco.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/modernization-as-the-road-to-salvation/
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