Industrial environmentalism versus holistic environmentalism
There is an increasing utilitarianism being used by some environmentalists. A holistic approach has been scrapped for an industrial one that isolates goals and targets solutions. We might call this industrial environmentalism. This industrial environmentalism is concerned with solving particular problems rather than a wholesale lifestyle change toward living at nature’s pace. It is interested in conserving water, but not conserving farms. It is interested in stopping global warming, but it will sacrifice an ecologically significant river for a hydroelectric damn.
This industrial environmentalism is convenient for the greening of corporations. A corporation can become “green” by picking any single problem, creating some solution to it, and going about destroying the ecosystem in every other aspect of their work. Monsanto has recently embarked on a strategy to create GMO corn, soybeans, and cotton that will yield twice as much as current seeds and will use 30 percent less water. This is a wonderful thing from the perspective of the industrial environmentalists. Less land could be used for growing more crops, and fewer water resources would be required for double the yield.
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