{"id":6438,"date":"2011-07-01T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2011-07-01T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:43:32","slug":"memo-to-smug-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6438","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Smug Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Online Soma Here’s a delightfully salty\u00a0essa<\/a>y from a fellow Brooklynite (of course!) which you should chew on while pondering the collapse of civilization<\/a>. Pay special heed to this:<\/p>\n

There is a good reason that the environmental movement in this country — and those tiny, blonde Northern countries — do not win the hearts and minds of most Americans, particularly during this economic period. When people who have no money are lectured about how they’re doing everything wrong\u00a0already<\/em>,<\/em> and are then, in the lightning round, told they don’t have any consideration for anyone other than themselves and their appallingly bloated families — much less for “the planet” — it’s one of many daily slaps in the face they have to endure. And are then asked to be grateful for the chance at enlightenment.<\/p>\n

https://castlehomecomfort.com/toilet-repair/ Most people struggling to get by are simply trying to do what they can for their families\u00a0today<\/em>, and maybe, if things are going slightly better, a week or two ahead. There is no time, no mental energy — no fucking money — to consider the aerial environmental view. Criticizing people under egregious stress is not only an ineffective tactic, it frankly lacks even baseline compassion. And this, in Broke-Ass’s view, is fundamentally un-American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/trainingoverview/ This screed is a welcome antidote to the vacuous preening<\/a> and chic lifestyle “sustainability<\/a>”\u00a0that has come to define 21st century environmentalism. The calcified movement, as I wrote here<\/a> two years ago, is in desperate need of a reboot:<\/p>\n

Environmentalism, for all its success, is still\u00a0largely shaped<\/a> by its elitist roots.<\/p>\n

Ambien Without Prescription It also remains a movement made up of upper-middle class whites, something leaders of established environmental groups had\u00a0cause to lament<\/a> after Obama was elected president. In recent years,\u00a0scholars<\/a> and\u00a0journalists<\/a> have written books on how this lack of racial and ethnic diversity has diluted environmentalism’s political power and message.<\/p>\n

https://worklivelaos.com/camce5/ If this has prompted any real soul-searching by mainstream environmental groups, I’m not aware of it. If there are any big mission-altering statements or campaigns by any of these groups that have enlarged the green tent, I’m not aware of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All still true today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buy Soma Online Here’s a delightfully salty\u00a0essay from a fellow Brooklynite (of course!) which you should chew on while pondering the collapse of civilization. Pay special heed to this: There is a good reason that the environmental movement in this country — and those tiny, blonde Northern countries — do not win the hearts and minds of most… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2651,2654,2659],"tags":[1019],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-groups","category-environmental-justice","category-environmentalism","tag-environmentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}