Comments on: The Green Reformation https://blog.speculist.com/environment/the-green-refor-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Kathy https://blog.speculist.com/environment/the-green-refor-1.html#comment-467 Kathy Thu, 12 May 2005 15:03:35 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=293#comment-467 My bipolar political affective disorder is showing again. The extremist environmentalists overlook the benefits of the modern world that affords them the affluence required to have the time and energy to promote their cause. Few of them would flourish in the kind of world they’d like to create. On the other hand, there are real environmental consequences to modern life that we shouldn’t gloss over. I don’t hope for middle ground, but for an informed, intentional approach that makes the best use of resources.

Urbanization might make room for habitat, but not if it is devoted to monoculture crops. I live in Iowa, home of beans and corn. And corn and beans. And dying small farming communities that are as impoverished as inner cities. The only livelihood seems to be methamphetamine production these days. I know it’s romantic to think that the days of small family farms will ever return — the demand of the urban areas has created a market for large, corporate farms. It’s a painful transition and I find myself wondering how society can be proactive. Any ideas?

]]> By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/environment/the-green-refor-1.html#comment-466 Karl Hallowell Wed, 11 May 2005 09:53:02 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=293#comment-466 Excellent story. I was about to about to proclaim that the fluidity of change in environmentalism was one way that modern society is better than the old. But I realized that in the early days of Christianity, it too experienced this sort of challenge and change. In other words, I think we’re still in the formative years of environmentalism. Things like the “Precaution Principle” are potential bureaucratic elements, but there is nothing currently in environmentalism like the corruption or bureaucracy of the Roman Catholic Church of the time of Luther.

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