Archive for the 'Environmentalism' Category

Fewer McMansions?

2nd 2007f August, 2007, Peter

Concern about the environment, and particularly carbon emissions, is leading US city planning authorities to limit the spread of so-called McMansions, massive houses, often built on small plots of land.
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Radical environmentalism

31st 2007f July, 2007, Peter

Some environmentalists have very extreme political views. In an article in Orion Magazine, Curtis White argues that humanity will not completely solve the world’s environmental problems without first replacing the current, scientific, rationalist and capitalist relationship man has with nature by a more spiritual relationship. This strikes me as politically naive, since [...]