R.J. Smith on the History of Environmentalism
Posted on: July 27, 2010
Posted in: All Videos, Documentaries
Robert J. Smith, Director of the Center for Private Conservation, explains in this short video how the modern environmentalist movement began in America. A celebrated author and environmental historian, Smith shows how the antiwar movement of the late 1960s evolved into an anti-capitalism movement that pushed for government control of environmental values.
Read more by Robert J. Smith here.
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August 1st, 2010 at 11:09 am
[...] RJ Smith on the history of environmentalism. Competitive Enterprise Institute. An interesting but one-sided video. Right to argue that American environmentalism at least partly grew out of the New Left and anti-war movements of the 1960s. But fails to recognise that the left’s adoption of green ideas was a response to defeat – the failure of socialism to meet its objectives – rather than a step forward. var fbShare = {url: ‘http://danielbenami.com/2010/08/01/videos-of-note-3/’,size:’small’} Tags: articles of note, consumption, environment, ethics, inequality, sustainability [...]