Environmentalism

I always thought that the most important thing Environmentalism could do as a social movement was expose how capitalism and our current economic thinking wreaks havoc on our environment. Given finite resources, it is impossible to have an indefinite one to two percent growth of GDP. It is an unhappy thought to think, but one day we will have to bite the bullet. I think Environmentalism is meant to show us that we need to switch our thinking of what is progress and what is really decline. I also think that it is strange that activists and scientists get distracted by other problems with the climate. For example things like acid rain and CFC's. These things could have been really damaging but we intervened and created legislation to mitigate them; but we some how are not able to produce the same results with climate change.

-Blaise