Save The Earth

“Where is that equality of restraint today? Where in anything that postures as conservatism today do you actually find anything that has anything genuinely to do with conservatism? For conservatism as a political movement has been taken over lock, stock and barrel by the insidious virus of neo-liberal individualism. As David Orr goes on to say, what is it today that is particularly conservative about handing over the governance of society to unfettered market forces and presuming they will do a better job than governance? What is conservative about squandering our heritage, be it natural, cultural or built? What is conservative about disregarding the advice of scientists on crucial issues like global warming, ozone depletion, loss of bio-diversity? What indeed is conservative about destroying all those things in people’s lives that give them any lasting sense of continuity, of familiarity, of even semi-permanence, in a world that is changing so fast around them?”

 

The full article, Save The Earth, from which this quote was taken, was written by Jonathon Porritt and was previously published in One Earth Magazine Issue No. 21, Spring 1996.  To see the full article please click here. 

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