Requiem for Environmentalism
By PIOTR C. BRZEZINSKI
Environmentalism is dead; long live the environment!
This pronouncement might seem a touch premature, especially to the 500 million people who will celebrate the 37th Earth Day this weekend—a collective “not dead yet” wheeze. However, these numbers mask the growing irrelevance of the environmentalist movement. Having lost its credibility with alarmist rhetoric and obsolete ideological ballast, the movement must develop a moderate discourse while challenging its previous assumptions and outdated theories.
The contemporary environmentalist movement faces a stark choice: change tactics or fade into irrelevance. Over the past decade, environmentalists have achieved few political victories and utterly failed to influence the general public. As indicated by a recent MIT study, the public knows little about environmental problems, and cares less. Out of 21 national and international issues, Americans ranked environmental problems 13th, well below terrorism, taxes, crime, and drugs.
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April 21st, 2006 at 2:15 pm
It’s easy to kick the “Ed Begley’s” when they’re down. The environmental movement suffers from the same lack of focus as the rest of the liberal agenda. It ain’t that they’re wrong they just can’t get it done. The NRA and the anti-abortion crowd are much more motivated, organized and financed. The great unwashed American public won’t get agitated about global warming until the Atlantic ocean starts lapping at they’re fourth floor condo window (that would be the East River in my case) and Florida becomes the blue-haired Atlantis of the 21st century.
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