Comments on: ‘Hair shirt’ environmentalism

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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:09:31 +0000

Needless to say, some of the world’s more dogmatic environmentalists will object to the whole notion of green shopping as a contradiction in terms. Great Green Goods’s compilers feel obliged to recommend that customers eschew wasteful purchases and “live with less”, despite the orgy of frivolous consumption they are being ushered into.

But Green.view has no qualms on that score. The majority of the world’s citizens are unlikely to be converted to the hair-shirted school of greenery, however laudable it might be. The only alternative is to find greener ways for the rest of us to go about our lives. Selling environmentally friendly versions of everyday goods, whether truly essential or utterly self-indulgent, is an important part of that process.

By: a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » Green buildings and labour productivity

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:02:36 +0000

[...] is a situation where it is possible to deploy the opposite of a hair shirt environmental solution: create something that is both more sustainable and more comfortable and [...]

By: .

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:01:29 +0000

The data visualization is amazing.

By: .

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:55:09 +0000

Very relevant to Malthusian considerations:

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:44:48 +0000

I think the basic cause of ‘hair shirt’ positions is always one of two things:

1. A Malthusian belief that the planet cannot sustain so many people living like us. The people who say that we are using four Earth’s worth of resources are a prime example.

2. People who have bought into a conservation agenda for whatever reason and are now asserting their superiority. Those who distain drivers fall into this camp.

By: What colour is your hair-shirt? « The EcoLibertarian

What colour is your hair-shirt? « The EcoLibertarian — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:28:00 +0000

[...] 6, 2008 · No Comments Milan Ilnyckyj offers up a typology of what he calls “hair-shirt environmentalists,” greens who argue that we have to do a whole lot less of what we [...]

By: .

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:45:54 +0000

Jeez, that makes sustainability sound like hair shirts and broccoli. Good luck getting people on board with that … it while barely even noticing the changes. No broccoli, no hair shirt — just life as (almost) normal.

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But underneath it is always the the hair-shirt: in the creed of those not motivated by greed (lefties … pushed out. So we have a right to wear our hair-shirts as activists and change agents. We have major work cut …

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