Environmentalism Today??

Read a really interesting article today about environmentalism and what it means. Here. My only caveat is that I am more materially interested in investigating aspects of urban environmentalism; specifically, those that re-incorporate a sense of place, of responsibility, of joy in the local, in the soil and in plants (that provide food). I can appreciate also that this author discusses the whole idea that the "wild" lands should be preserved, but according to most major ethnobotanists and other conservationists, most landscapes that we have deemed "pristine" have actually been managed or altered by humans for thousands and thousands of years. So I have a hard time buying into the myth of "wild lands" that the author is of the perspective of believing in wholly. In other respects, however, the author of Confessions of A Recovering Environmentalist is quite right on the main impetus of the modern environmental movement--or at least what most people within and without the movement see it as. It is not focused on doing "more good" but rather "less bad."

And less bad is still doing bad.