Check out the following link:
http://thebreakthrough.org/PDF/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf
This piece is from 2004 but I think it’s as relevant (if not more so) today. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this … how the ideas resonate with those of us working on environmental and community issues here in the Sacramento region … whether you feel we have an obligation, given the losses and failures in recent years, to rethink our approach … what kinds of organizing models might actually work in the communities in our area … and anything else this essay inspires.
Please also think and write about what we might do with Sacramento Earth Day to facilitate the opening up of our work — in all its iterations — so that we might come to experience the “environment” not as a “thing” that “environmentalists” need to protect but as the sum total of the world, in all its complexity and messiness.
Graham
