The collapse of modernism and that hubris had many causes, including the rise in audibility of nonwhite and nonwestern voices, but environmental science and politics were key ingredients too. Environmentalists look at where human activity harms the natural world and seek to reverse or prevent that harm. They recognize what is reckless, shortsighted, and destructive about our species and suggest caution is due in all our actions and respect for the nonhuman world is essential to human survival.
The collapse of modernism and that hubris had many causes, including the rise in audibility of nonwhite and nonwestern voices, but environmental science and politics were key ingredients too. Environmentalists look at where human activity harms the natural world and seek to reverse or prevent that harm. They recognize what is reckless, shortsighted, and destructive about our species and suggest caution is due in all our actions and respect for the nonhuman world is essential to human survival.
