>I have also heard opinions in the past that environmentalism in its 20th century forms was really just a white culture concept of aesthetics this is phrased s

>I have also heard opinions in the past that environmentalism in its 20th century forms was really just a white culture concept of aesthetics this is phrased so strangely that i can't tell what it's supposed to mean. environmentalism was long intertwined with romantic thought and philosophy, and obviously until the second half of the 20th century did not carry the eschatological urgency of climate change. environmentalism as we've inherited it is largely a european and american development so it perhaps shouldn't be surprising that it is associated with white people, but i can't tell if the implication is supposed to be some kind of indictment of it.