What is Wrong with Environmentalism?
In this interview, author and food activist Michael Pollan talks about biofuels and the food crisis, the benefits of grass-fed beef, and how environmentalists should think about sustainability.
Many people don’t recognize the food they eat as an environmental topic. Only in recent years has there been recognition that sustainable farming offers a very important model of not just how to grow food, but how to engage with the natural world.
Most environmentalists believe that the human relationship with nature is “zero-sum” — for people to get what we want from the natural world, the natural world must be diminished. But at a well run pastured animal farm where they’re rotating crops and rotating species, the land is actually improved. Pollan believes that there might be ways that people can get what they need and not diminish nature.
For more of his thoughts, click the link below.
Sources: AlterNet July 8, 2008
