Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works. They're primitive inventions designed by people who didn't fully grasp the consequences of their actions.
It's what led me to set up a blog called 'The Greening', to try to document the struggles towards a set of human governance and living social systems which work with the ecosystem rather than against it. I am tired of the way that the only way to be more personally eco-friendly is to be prepared to pay more. It shouldn't be a hobby for those with the money or the possibility of dropping out: it should be the way things are...
This article then goes on to summarise, in effect, the thesis of 'Natural Capitalism' which is a hopeful reading of necessary changes which could occur 'naturally' in a capitalist system...
Wired 14.05: The Next Green Revolution:
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