By Frances Moore Lappé
In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappéa mammoth of the environmental movement confronts permitted knowledge of environmentalism. Drawing at the most modern study from anthropology to neuroscience and her personal box adventure, she argues that the largest problem to human survival isn’t our fossil gas dependency, melting glaciers, or different calamities. quite, it’s our defective frame of mind approximately those environmental crises that robs us of energy. Lappé dismantles seven universal thought traps”from limits to development to the flaws of democracy that belie what we now find out about nature, together with our personal, and gives contrasting thought leaps” that exhibit our hidden power.
Like her Diet for a Small Planet vintage, EcoMind is difficult, arguable and empowering.
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At the same time, such understanding may also indicate what role the growing environmental-justice movement may play in the future of the environmental movement as a whole. They Came from the Woods Failing to appreciate the history of the environmental movement could lead to some very misguided and ineffective policy decisions in environmental justice. But given that history, mainstream environmental organizations cannot reasonably be expected to either quickly embrace the environmentaljustice doctrine, or to readily accommodate the organizational, ideological, or strategic changes that the concept of environmental justice necessitates.
For example, in the 1990s, several mainstream organizations—notably the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace—began to recruit minorities, both for membership and for staff and decision-making positions. Furthermore, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, to cite only two examples, have also participated in aspects of the environmental-justice struggle by ¤ling legal briefs in speci¤c cases or by providing organizing or information resources. But do these actions signal the embrace of the environmental-justice cause by mainstream environmental organizations?
Rather, this position argues that for the development of remedial Forms of Environmental Justice 23 policies, it may be unimportant whether an action was premeditated or was the indirect consequence of the pursuit of other goals. For example, the location of hazardous-waste land¤lls in urban minority communities may represent the bias of some industries for leaving wastes in communities that traditionally possess little political power. 14 Whatever the explanation, the problem is not why industry took the action it did, but that minority populations now living and working in those areas may face a greater exposure to hazardous materials than the rest of the population.