Environmentalism Moving Forward

I read an article today about endorsing Green being the in-thing with Al Gore winning the Oscar and Hollywood stars joining the bandwagon. I wonder how effective some of these campaigns are though.

This follows from a concept a friend and I discussed in the past. The basic idea is that progress cannot be stopped; if environmentalism has to be effective, it has to go along side progress. A campaign that advocates reduced use of cars is likely to be much less effective than the development of high performance electric cars that will work just as well as regular cars and yet be safe to the environment.

Environmentalism can be looked at as having two schools of thought- the conservatist school and the developmental school. The developmental school offers solutions that will save the environment without us having to compromise on the luxuries we are used to.

While the conservatist school will say don’t cut trees, the developmental school will look at developing solutions that can perform the same function as trees and be installed in cars, buildings to compensate for trees that are cut or pollution. What we need for successful environmental strategies is increased thought in the developmental school.