Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David ThoreauTag: god environmentalism flying
[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.
Slavoj ŽižekTag: fate environment global-warming environmentalism reassurance guilt television football recycling fatalism catastrophe impotence organic-food 2010 2010-fifa-world-cup 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokul paper-recycling
Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill.
Naomi KleinTag: alabama environment environmentalism employment slogans 2008 arabs louisiana texas may-2008 anti-intellectualism deepwater-horizon-oil-spill republican-party-us 2008-in-united-states 2008-rnc anti-arabism arctic-national-wildlife-refuge drill-baby-drill drilling-rigs fossil-fuels mississippi mitch-mcconnell natural-gas-prices newt-gingrich offshore-drilling offshore-oil-gas-in-us oil-platforms oil-rigs oil-wells petroleum-industry political-campaign republican-national-convention rocky-mountains shale-gas shales united-states-senate us-offshore-drilling-debate
You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
Bill MaherTag: humour environmentalism deepwater-horizon-oil-spill environmental-disaster renewable-energy
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.
Lierre KeithTag: vegetarianism activism environment environmentalism radicalism
The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.
Tom SzakyTag: environmentalism business entrepreneurship
In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.
Tom SzakyTag: environmentalism business entrepreneurship
The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.
James TarantoTag: environmentalism jerks meanness nastiness sanctimony the-guardian
Humanity's current demand for energy is fundamentally unsustainable. The only feasible choice is to conduct a massive downscaling of all economic, industrial, and political operations. A decentralized, autonomous, and locally-based energy infrastructure is ultimately the only sustainable option.
Stacy PettigrewTag: environmentalism
Peace is a conscious choice.
John DenverTag: music peace environmentalism
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