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Jul 10, 2010 9:06:43 PM
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The "green movement" is tied to green business, which is bankrupt of meaningful ideals. The confrontation facing the world in the very near future requires far more concessions than the GM, as it exists, is prepared to manage. What's required is an outright paradigm shift. GMs and other overly hyped, publicized, and co-opted attempts to pose as lifestyle solutions to growing environmental degradation, sadly distracts us from the necessary changes we need to make. The GM covers ideas like reuse and recycle with rhinestones while quietly ignoring "reduce." It promises technology for problems that have already been solved thousands of years ago, and drowns out the wisdom and sacrifice that might allow us to rediscover them. It condones violent and flawed institutions (state/corporate capitalism, federal governance, growth economies, etc.) and at best prolongs the inevitable.
That said, Its in some ways a new discourse for many who've remained turned off or tuned out on the more "radical", or what I would call "serious" calls to considering real progress on environmental issues. So, in the sense that its a gateway monikor for cultivating more realistic dialogue (if we're to take environmental/social concerns earnestly), it can have the effect of producing positive results. It can also, for many reasons, have the exact opposite effect.
by tophix
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