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 "Western consumers were disenchanted by science, and living in societies rapidly transforming around political movements—including feminism, environmentalism, anti-racism, and multiculturalism?dedicated to redressing social imbalances which had often been reinforced by the science of earlier eras. A new cultural focus on individualism, too, went against the grain of biomedical practice and the constantly decreasing time allotted to the doctor—patient encounter within orthodox medicine."- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "The timeline of environmentalism can be similarly perceived, even by those closest to the movement itself. About as far away as anyone can make out in this landscape stands the distant figure of Rachel Carson, heroically holding aloft a copy of Silent Spring. In the cosmology of environmentalism, one cannot even extrapolate beyond this point: we arbitrarily fix the date of the ecological big bang as the year 1962.6
Thus, for all intents and purposes, Silent Spring becomes a holy text, a Veda of the environmental movement's own creation myth."- Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) |
 "New social movements in feminism and environmentalism were threatening traditional attitudes. The numbers of immigrants were increasing. And in politics, there was escalating conflict in the cold war, the growth of the black power movement, and the rise of third world nationalism, especially in the Middle East. The country was in need of a bogeyman on which it could pin all its anxieties.
Along came the McMartin story. It was the first of what police were soon calling multi-victim multi-offender (MVMO) child abuse cases in North America."- William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) |
 "WE, the free citizens of planet earth, thus affirm the need for a system of global governance founded on the values of integral consciousness, which include:
The value of the universal family of humanity;
The value of individual freedom and personal autonomy;
The values of decency, honesty, and respect for traditions;
The values of progress, prosperity, and economic development;
The values of multiculturalism, environmentalism, and egalitarianism;
The value of the channel of evolution as a whole—the system through which individuals and societies develop."- Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "For example, mul-ticulturalism is a reaction against Eurocentrism; environmentalism is a reaction against industrial degradation and exploitation; and the preference for consensus, bonding, and "linking" is a reaction against modernism's ubiquitous hierarchical ranking. Even postmodern consciousness' feeling, caring, sensitive orientation is itself largely a reaction against the cold rationality and dispassionate perspective of scientific materialism." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) |
 "We will be bringing the playing field up instead of sinking down to the lowest depths of ecological depravity. environmentalism as I'm talking about is a president's biggest weapon for building strong international relations; it goes so far beyond politics. So that's why America needs a president who gets it.
Because we lack leadership, we are trying to regulate our way out of a mess that requires a complete national change in consciousness and spirituality.
That takes placing a value on nature."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Our elected leaders also need to recognize finally, if belatedly, that environmentalism can help to win the war on terror. When it comes to international diplomacy, we need carrots and sticks. Sound environmental policy, aimed at addressing both global warming as well as dependence on foreign oil and nuclear proliferation, can become one of our most powerful sticks. "Yes, there is an alternative to the Euro-wimps and the neocons, and it is the 'geo-greens,'" said Thomas L. Friedman in his January 30, 2005, New York Times column.13 I am a geo-green." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "They offer a strong market case for environmentalism. They are saving trees, being a good corporate citizen, and the company is making money. In fact, according to their own data, some 38 percent of their total annual newsprint production is from recovered fiber, exceeding the industry average of 30 percent. Bowater is also the largest North American consumer of old tires for tire-derived fuel." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "CFL packaged with all those attributes—and that figure includes consumers who may think negatively of environmentalism.
Since the name change and the bundling of these benefits, U.S. sales growth of Philips CFLs (which started out at essentially nil) has been growing by 12 percent or more a year. Companies inspired by this success can learn the following lessons from Philips:
¦ Price environmentally sound products comparably to conventional ones.
¦ Link environmental innovations to other benefits, like quality and durability."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Born in 1801 in the frontier community of Woodstock, Vermont, George Perkins Marsh traveled extensively through the Old World and published Man and Nature, the foundational work of environmentalism in 1864. Marsh was a voracious reader who gave up law to run for Congress in 1843 and was appointed U.S. minister to Turkey five years later. With minimal duties and ample time for travel, he collected plants and animals for the Smithsonian Institution during an expedition through Egypt and Palestine in 1851 before returning home."- David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
| "In the cosmology of environmentalism, one cannot even extrapolate beyond this point: we arbitrarily fix the date of the ecological big bang as the year 1962.6
Thus, for all intents and purposes, Silent Spring becomes a holy text, a Veda of the environmental movement's own creation myth. DDT serves as totemic a role in this mythology as Jackie's pillbox hat serves for the myth of a Kennedy Camelot (from precisely the same time period)." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) |
 "A DEEP CRACK IN ENVIRONMENTALISM
This breakdown is also an elephant in the room of environmentalism.
Sustainable development has many differing definitions that together form a basis for contemporary environmentalist philosophy. In 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development defined sustainable development as "satisfying the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."8 This is one of the most frequently quoted definitions."- Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.) |
 "Dowie, Mark, "The New Face of environmentalism," World Policy Journal, (Winter 1991/92).
Dychtwald, Ken, "Reflections on the Holographic Paradigm," in The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science, edited by Ken Wilber, New Science Library, Shambhala, Boston, 1982.
Fox, Warwick, "Self and World: A Transpersonal Ecological Approach," ReVision, Vol. 13, No. 3, (Winter 1991).
—Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for environmentalism, Shambhala, Boston, 1990.
Gerber, Richard, M.D."- Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.) |
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