Environmentalism and political ideologies
Résumé
In a well-quoted book, Andrew Dobson proposed differentiating between “light green” and “dark green”; the former acknowledges the ecological issues such as climate change and resources depletion but positions itself in favor of pursuing growth, finding cleaner technologies, while the latter challenges the first with three arguments: the insufficiency of technological solutions, the exponential effects of growth (which are counter-intuitive), and the interdependency of the issues, which invalidate all partial solutions.