This reminds me of the Adam Curtis film "All Cared For By Machines Of Loving Grace." Indeed, "eat your vegetables" itself is as much an environmental idea as a

This reminds me of the Adam Curtis film "All Cared For By Machines Of Loving Grace." Indeed, "eat your vegetables" itself is as much an environmental idea as a nutritional position. Curtis attributes environmentalism in its present form to systems-think grounded in the computer industry. The deep irony is that computers themselves arose from the ashes of Bertand Russel's (failed) attempt to systemically automate mathematics. I'm always amazed that techies, who have to deal with the fragility and foibles of computers, aren't leading the charge to be skeptical of this sort of thing. Of course, the incentives are not aligned with that.