Why are our environmental problems still growing despite a huge
increase in global conservation efforts? Peterson del Mar untangles
this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to
environmentalism. Industrialization drove people to look for
meaning in nature even as they consumed its products more
relentlessly. Hence England led the way in both manufacturing and
preserving its countryside, and the United States created a
matchless set of national parks as it became the world's
pre-eminent economic and military power.
Environmental movements have produced some impressive results,
including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and
places. But agendas that challenged western prosperity and comfort
seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have
been unabashed utopianists. Environmentalism considers a wide range
of 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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