2115: A 100-year Review of Ecomodernism
A 100-year review of the movement that solved climate change and habitat destruction, and changed environmentalism forever.
The launch was a disaster. The group’s founding members were already arguing with one another before the movement had even gone live. The media were critical. Politicians were confused. Yet what they launched is central to how we view the world today.
Despite their disagreements, what the founding members did share was a deep love for the natural world. They wanted to protect nature, but they felt that something had gone wrong with environmentalism. Badly wrong.
Who was this ragtag group and what did they want? They called themselves the ecomodernists.
Ecomodernism: what is it?
You can boil ecomodernism down to two simple statements:
What ecomodernists want: for humanity to shrink its impacts on the environment and make more room for nature.
What ecomodernists reject: that the way to do this is to “harmonize with nature”.
The ecomodernists asked some difficult questions: Are the best solutions really the traditional ones? Is natural always better than man-made? Should we expect…
