Neil Evernden - ‘Natural Alien’ 2nd Edition

For, at bottom, nothing has changed. The natural environment remains vulnerable whenever there are short-term benefits to be had by sacrificing environmental protection…….by basing all arguments on enlightened self-interest the environmentalists have ensured their own failure……’

 

He then goes on to quote Anthony Brandt  - ‘The industrialist and the environmentalist are brothers under the skin; they differ only as to the best use the natural world ought to be put to.’

 

 

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from page 10 of Neil Everndens’ ‘Natural Alien’ (2nd Edit. 1993).

 

http://www.dgfg.org/1/post/2011/10/book-review-the-natural-alien-humankind-and-environment-by-neil-evernden.html