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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