The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We
have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western
world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and
collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and cultivation of
fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and
counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground.
Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of thinking derives
from what Bruckner calls "the seductive attraction of disaster," as
exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But
ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away
from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in
order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse.
Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop
a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems
in a practical way.
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