AN EXCERPT: Neo-environmentalism is a progressive, business-friendly, postmodern take on the environmental dilemma. It dismisses traditional green thinking, with its emphasis on limits and transforming societal values, as naive. New technologies, global capitalism and western-style development are not the problem but the solution. The future lies in enthusiastically embracing biotechnology, synthetic biology, nuclear power, nanotechnology, geo-engineering and anything else new and complex that annoys Greenpeace….According to the neogreens, growth has no limits. We are, in the words of their spiritual leader, Stewart Brand, “as gods”, and must accept our responsibility to manage the planet rationally through powerful technologies guided by science.
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All great civilisations,” wrote the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, “are built on parochialism.”
You have to be interested and involved in your own backyard to save the world.