Envionmental Perspective

This elimination of the "independent/skeptical" approach as a meaningful alternative leaves the radical and mainstream views. I believe with the deep ecologists that "only revolutionary changes in how we live and what we value can save the planet" (Crusius and Channell 199). The planet may be powerful enough to save itself somehow, but the human race has for the most part shown little ability or willingness to take the kind of drastic steps necessary to save itself.

For that reason, I agree with the deep ecologists that only a radical change in our thoughts and actions and ways of life can reverse the destruction of the environment.

On the other hand, it is highly unlikely if not impossible to return to the idyllic humans-in-nature way of life advocated, or at least desired, by Lame Deer and Erdoes. It is possible, of course, for individuals or small groups to restore their relationship with nature and to l

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truction of the environment, we realize that we are entering radical territory. To use resources effectively means confronting the most powerful corporations in the world and persuading or forcing them to change their greedy destruction of the environment. Such a necessary and radical change does not seem likely, short of global disaster. At that point, corporations will have to change in order to survive and profit, which is all most corporations appear to care about. By then, however, it will be too late to reverse the destruction. Collard's article is certainly mainstream, as his conclusion makes clear: Instead of voting for a manufactured extreme---either people or spotted owls---we can send a clear signal to politicians at all levels. We must insist on a new choice: the economy and a world we can live in (Collard 232). Even as he makes such a mainstream stand, however, Collard unnecessarily and inaccurately besmirches more radical positions, suggesting that they would destroy the economy in order to save the environment. Only the most extreme environmentalist would make such an argument, and, in any case, such an extreme stand has no backing from any meaningful sector of the population. My own position, then, is co
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