http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/04/23/the-killer-macguffin/ where nature and culture meet Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:45:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/04/23/the-killer-macguffin/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Sacrificing Cultures on the Climate Change Altar Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:46:38 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=680#comment-587 [...] Until about five years ago (give or take a few years), there was a pretty spirited debate in the ecological community over which problem posed a greater environmental threat–land use or climate change? By every metric, all the evidence points to land use (overfishing, pollution, deforestation, soil degradation, water depletion and so on). But now all those problems are subsumed under what is perceived to be the greater existential threat: climate change. (In April, Brendan Borrell wrote a provocative essay for Slate on this attitudinal shift, which I discussed here.) [...] [...] Until about five years ago (give or take a few years), there was a pretty spirited debate in the ecological community over which problem posed a greater environmental threat–land use or climate change? By every metric, all the evidence points to land use (overfishing, pollution, deforestation, soil degradation, water depletion and so on). But now all those problems are subsumed under what is perceived to be the greater existential threat: climate change. (In April, Brendan Borrell wrote a provocative essay for Slate on this attitudinal shift, which I discussed here.) [...]

]]> http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/04/23/the-killer-macguffin/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Steve Bloom Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:09:51 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=680#comment-343 "[E]nvironmentalists, in their zeal to view everything through a climate change lens, are losing sight of a more tangible and truly urgent ecological crisis"?  Really?  Any evidence for this?  As an active environmentalist, my experience has been that things are much closer to the opposite of your view.    “[E]nvironmentalists, in their zeal to view everything through a climate change lens, are losing sight of a more tangible and truly urgent ecological crisis”?  Really?  Any evidence for this?  As an active environmentalist, my experience has been that things are much closer to the opposite of your view.   

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