Re: Anti Green - Who Exactly Archived Message Posted by Ian M on January 20, 2023, 10:32 pm, in reply to "Anti Green - Who Exactly" Chris said: 'most posting are aware that much that is allegedly 'GREEN' ain't green, indeed, much is just green face balm to make business and individuals feel good as we continue to destroy our planets habitat' - indeed, I fear Jim is conflating 'anti-green' with deep green in a similar way to how antisemitism gets confused (often deliberately so) with anti-zionism. But there's a difference between criticising something outright in order to dismiss or destroy, and criticising what you see as a perversion of that original thing in an effort to defend the original essence and prevent it being betrayed or co-opted. Paul Kingsnorth wrote about this at length re: the environmental movement, eg: https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/confessions cheers, I PS: loosely related, some strange, occasionally entertaining discussions with eco-modernists in the comments under the Paul Mobbs video I posted before: Message Thread: On bright side: energy mayhem is accelerating vast variety of green solutions from lab to production - Jim_Carlucci January 20, 2023, 1:02 pm Anti Green - Who Exactly - Chris Rogers January 20, 2023, 2:24 pm Re: Anti Green - Who Exactly - Dovetail Joint January 20, 2023, 4:40 pm Re: Anti Green - Who Exactly - Ian M January 20, 2023, 10:32 pm   Searching