`Environmental movement has lost its way'

While this is not entirely fair in the sense of totalising the environmental movement, it certainly expresses a few of my misgivings. I'm particularly keen to showcse these tow points:

"• Hydroelectricity: International activists boast to have blocked more than 200 hydroelectric dams in the developing world and are campaigning to tear down existing dams. Hydro is the largest source of renewable electricity, providing about 12 percent of the global supply. Do activists prefer coal plants? Would they rather ignore the needs of billions of people?

• Wind power: Wind power is commercially feasible, yet activists argue that the turbines kill birds and ruin landscapes. A million times more birds are killed by cats, windows and cars than by all the windmills in the world. As for aesthetics, wind turbines are works of art compared to some of our urban environments."

It does seem to me howevr that he is criticising a certain amount of nimbyism which isn't the green movements; just human selfishness and denial greenwashing itself.

Herald.com | 01/30/2005 | `Environmental movement has lost its way'