Environmentalism

The process of overcoming such resistance is, of course, multipronged, but it will require bodies of committed activists in civil society and the state attuned to the urgency of planetary sustainability.

Environmentalism, first and foremost, continues to be a game of defense—working to reduce overall carbon emissions, chemical releases, forest loss—rather than a battle to transform the dominant growth-centric economic and cultural paradigm into an ecocentric one that respects planetary boundaries.

a large share of humanity lives in conditions that the affluent minority left behind generations ago, and because the growing demand for energy and materials has been stressing the biosphere so much and so fast that

Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.

An environmentalist such as Vandana Shiva directs her critique and ire less at national governments than at the idea of the global itself.