Monbiot has criticised ecomodernism for endorsing agricultural modernisation,but this is the way to feed a growing urban population and free up land for rewilding
Yesterday we launched in London what we hope will be a current direction for the environmental movement, one which takes green thinking in a more progressive and pragmatic direction. We call it ‘ecomodernism’. The idea is to build a current cross-political movement of people who believe that humans are capable of using technological innovation to solve critical environmental problems, and such as climate change,at the same time as allowing economic growth to eradicate poverty in developing countries. Traditional environmentalism has tended to insist that human prosperity and our environment are on a collision course: as we make clear in our manifesto, we don’t deem this has to be the case. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com