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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 19.3 (Fall 2005) > Articles |
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The Irony of Environmentalism: The Ecological Futility but Political Necessity of Lifestyle Change [Abstract]
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November 11, 2005
Environmentalists argue that we need to reduce population and consumption to
protect the environment, and that this is something we can all do by
individually choosing to have smaller families and buying fewer products. This
article questions the ecological effects of such choice. When people have fewer
children or reduce their consumption, they save money. What they then do with
this money is crucial to the consequences of their actions. If they place it in
conventional financial mechanisms, such as banks or stocks, they merely shift
the locale of environmental harm since these mechanisms, within a capitalist
economy, redeploy savings into further investment and productivity. For
individual lifestyle choices to make a difference, environmentalists must find
ways of linking such choices to efforts aimed at changing the nature of
capitalist economies. If we had effective public policies that redistributed
income, forced polluters to pay for the harm they cause, mandated more
environmentally friendly technologies, and reduced the workday in the richer
parts of the world, we could alter the way we live our material lives.
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The Carnegie Council's flagship publication, Ethics & International Affairs is an interdisciplinary resource for scholars, students, and policy analysts concerned with the moral dimensions of global issues. The journal covers global justice, civil society, democratization, international law, intervention, sanctions, and related topics.
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