I love this essay Gillian! It renewed my zest for caring about the environment. I was once a big (and insufferable) environmentalist, but eventually developed a distaste for the whole subject after it started to get taken over more by extreme activists.
I think your approach is so wise and much more compatible with maintaining a free society of empowered individuals. It's really a dignifying philosophy of environmentalism.
I’m glad to hear you liked it and that it renewed something in you, Salomé! Writing it reconnected me to that zest as well, reaffirming that I can still be a self-described environmentalist while not subscribing to the collectivist idea of what that means or should look like.
Noah, what a pleasure it was to read your comment. Thank you for your very kind words - and I agree with what you've said here. The waters of environmental activism are indeed muddy, and we need to have a conversation about it. Hopefully this article will encourage more of those kinds of conversations in fruitful ways. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and engaging with this piece. I'm glad to know you enjoyed it :)
I love this essay Gillian! It renewed my zest for caring about the environment. I was once a big (and insufferable) environmentalist, but eventually developed a distaste for the whole subject after it started to get taken over more by extreme activists.
I think your approach is so wise and much more compatible with maintaining a free society of empowered individuals. It's really a dignifying philosophy of environmentalism.
Thank you for publishing it with us!!
I’m glad to hear you liked it and that it renewed something in you, Salomé! Writing it reconnected me to that zest as well, reaffirming that I can still be a self-described environmentalist while not subscribing to the collectivist idea of what that means or should look like.
Noah, what a pleasure it was to read your comment. Thank you for your very kind words - and I agree with what you've said here. The waters of environmental activism are indeed muddy, and we need to have a conversation about it. Hopefully this article will encourage more of those kinds of conversations in fruitful ways. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and engaging with this piece. I'm glad to know you enjoyed it :)