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Megan Tady’s February report in the New Standard (since picked up by Alternet and by Rachel’s Health & Environment newsletter) reminded me. She finds a number of environmentalists arguing that Greenpeace is way too conservative, maybe even holding back environmentalism by merely calling for “various regulations and market-based actions to reduce greenhouse-gas output by 60 to 80 percent over the next 43 years.”
Yes, these modern-day would-be Trainites are the people who cause global-warming denialists like Avery and Singer to lose key brain synapses and conclude that a problem with such a drastic solution must be one that doesn’t actually exist. But I can’t quite tell what the environmentalists to the left of Greenpeace are proposing. What exactly do you do the morning after you’ve made your “urgent call” and your neighbors drive off to work and play as usual?
