hippies and hipsters suffer the same fate
Traditionally, environmentalists have not been in very high demand as friends. This is in part because they have developed a reputation for being long-winded and angry about the state of things, because they want you to replace all of your belongings with green ones, and because until now, they have been largely inaccessible, living in communal farms in Vermont and in the world’s biggest hippie compound—commonly referred to as the Pacific Northwest. They can seem like a very difficult group to infiltrate and eventually exploit.
–intro to stuff environmentalists like
“environmentalism” (quotes denoting a specific trend which many say has, as a social movement, failed, and has IMO now been greenwashed to death) is now popcultural enough to be a massive joke.
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You mean like my neighbors, the stereotypical greenies who talk the talk and dress the role, but own six cars for four people, and plant invasive Eurasian shrubs in their back yard to attract non-native birds which are killed and eaten by the several feral cats allowed to shelter on the property?
Or certain extreme conservation groups which are against every project, but offer no alternative? They perpetuate the status quo, which means that endangered species are still endangered, and fragmented habitat is still fragmented. These same outfits tend to encourage the myth of pristine nature, forgetting that this landscape was maintained with fire for thousands of years by those who were here before us. Benign neglect, in a developed nation where landscape level ecological processes don’t really function very well anymore, is a recipe for continued degradation and species loss.
I probably just used too many big words. But at least I’m smiling, not angry.
And I’ll continue to channel my green dollars to places that buy and restore habitat, like The Nature Conservancy, or that force real reform under the endagnnered species act, like Citizens for Biological Diversity… the only group of its type that my lawyer friends are actually afraid of.
massive joke = epic fail