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In context (and hindsight) it was the necessary "emotionally manipulative hyperbole" to kick off the whole shebang, eh?
by carapace 5y ago
In context (and hindsight) it was the necessary "emotionally manipulative hyperbole" to kick off the whole shebang, eh?
- colechristensen 5y agoI don’t know about “necessarily”, going back and imagining history happening differently isn’t always a fruitful activity. There were certainly people interested in preserving high quality environments and concerned with degradation before the more extreme and hyperbole laden “environmental movement” One can only guess how things would have evolved differently, but people did have successes before the exaggeration became common, and overreaction and political splits to extreme views is currently a significant obstacle to progress. When you exaggerate, you create opposition who do too.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoAhem. Create opposition? By whom? Big multinationals which have budgets for PR greenwashing everything? And lawyers to mute dissent? Which has been proven again and again after the fact? When things were already broken? See it as an asymmetric answer in the war of attrition by the commercial killers of the environment.