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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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7. The Empire

Reply to cprise (Reply #6)

Thu May 3, 2012, 05:37 AM

May 2012

is all of humanity. Not everything revolves solely around the Benighted States of America.

Yes biocentrism is the point. But not everyone's point - perhaps it should be. If more environmental leaders begin to publicly repudiate anthropocentric environmentalism, maybe biocentrism will find room to grow in the public imagination.

And Paul Kingsnorth, who I mention in the OP, is a founder of Dark Mountain.

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David Suzuki: The fundamental failure of environmentalism [View all] GliderGuider May 2012 OP

Fish... RobertEarl May 2012 #1

I don't know if it's Big Business so much as The2ndWheel May 2012 #2

It's not either/or - it's both/and GliderGuider May 2012 #3

another important fact KT2000 May 2012 #4

+1 GliderGuider May 2012 #5

Do we have to go through this every 4 years? cprise May 2012 #6

The Empire GliderGuider May 2012 #7

My point was that he was bemoaning cprise May 2012 #8