Environmental movements have produced some impressive results,
including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and
places. But movements that challenged western prosperity and
comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical
environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists. In this short
guide, Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how
prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialisation made
conservation sensible, but also drove people to look for meaning in
nature even as they consumed its products more relentlessly. Hence
Englandled the way in both manufacturing and preserving its
countryside, and the United Statescreated a matchless set of
national parks as it became the world's pre-eminent economic and
military power. Environmentalismconsiders both the conservation and
preservation movements and less organized forms of nature loving
(from seaside vacations to ecotourism) to argue that these
activities have commonly distracted us from the hard work of
creating a sustainable and sensible relationship with the
environment.
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