November 28, 2008

Conservation's Uphill Battle

By PETER DAUVERGNE

Environmentalism has failed to slow the ways that producing, using, and replacing consumer goods deflect ecological costs into distant places and future generations. Consumption, interacting with political and economic structures, continues to deflect these costs into ecosystems with less capacity and onto people with less power to adapt to them, and it is doing so at a quickening pace. Moreover, even as the globalization of environmentalism reduces the per-unit impacts of consumption and

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