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| [Their argument begins by noting that people and organizations representing the environmental movement today find themselves politically less powerful than they were fifteen years ago and, as a] result, modern environmentalism is no longer capable of dealing with the world’s most serious ecological crisis (Global Warming).
We need to take a step back from fighting small battles and advocating technical solutions to articulate a “big vision” and a “core set of values” and it’s better not to better sell narrow, and mythical visions and technical policy proposals but rather to figure out who we are in the environment and who we need to be to be to play our role correctly. |
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Their argument begins by noting that people and organizations representing the environmental movement today find themselves politically less powerful than they were fifteen years ago and, as a result,
[...] Shellenberger and Nordhaus suggest that we need to take a step back from fighting small battles and advocating technical solutions to articulate a “big vision” and a “core set of values” (7).8 [page 36] To accomplish this, “environmentalists need to tap into the creative worlds of myth-making, even religion, not to better sell narrow and technical policy proposals but rather to figure out who we are and who we need to be” (Shellenberger and Nordhaus 2004, 34). 8. Such a focus is, ultimately, what brought George W. Bush to power in 2000 (and, arguably, Regan [sic] in 1980). |
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