![]() A legislator from Wyoming is reported to haveĭrawn ‘a similar parallel with wolves’ (Robin Toner, Resolved: no moreīleeding hearts, New York Times, ‘Week in Review’ section, July 16, Post these warnings because unnatural feeding and artificial Ĭare creates dependency’. Have held up a sign that said ‘Do Not Feed the Alligators’ and noted, ‘We The needy, a legislator from Florida who opposes such aid is reported to Thus in debates in the US Congress on reducing welfare benefits to Weapon for waging war on the poor, the underprivileged, and the helpless. Reactionary legislators who use zoological reductionism as an ideological Major social concerns into biology - be they expressed in terms of genetics, demographics, or biocentrism - is now being stridendy echoed by Humanity that I believe these trends foster, their regressive absorption of Social Darwinism that is very much abroad today. Malthusianism, and deep ecology) to feed into the politically charged Tendency of antihumanism (particularly trends like sociobiology, Having expressed this concern, it would be foolhardy to ignore the Movement is to advance) are even possible or whether criticisms thatĬoncern the welfare of that movement can be intelligently explored on Within the ecology movement (which should be encouraged if the What is at stake in such rhetorical charges is whether dissenting views Reproved as cynical and demagogic if environmentalists are not to surrender the moral integrity that they claim for themselves and their ideas. I have encountered such cynical behavior only once before in my lifetime - during the 1930s, when devotees of Stalin’s version ofĬommunism designated all of their critics as ‘fascists’ and worse forĭaring to challenge their policies. Nor is he the only one who has done so over United States after I criticized his ecomystical views as deleterious to theĮnvironmental movement. Years ago, a leading light in the deep ecology tendency scandalouslyĪccused me in The Progressive of capitulating to reactionaries in the I find it necessary to make this statement to the reader because some Ideas with ecology as such and to challenge any criticism of them as anĮndeavor to subvert the ecology movement. It would be gross demagoguery for antihumanists, misanthropes, and primivitists - who in my view are seriouslyĭamaging the environmental cause - to identify their own regressive Various movements - has been and remains assiduously committed to ![]() Much of my life - some forty years as a writer, lecturer, and activist in Today, when environmentalism is under assault by Republican reactionaries in the United States, Tory reactionaries in Britain, and apologists forĬorporate interests everywhere, I wish to reiterate my emphatic supportįor all environmentalist tendencies that seek to preserve biotic diversity,Ĭlean air and water, chemically untainted foods, and wilderness areas. ![]() For my dear friend of fifty years, David Eisen
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