The Atlantic: “How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Soul”
A former RFF research analyst muses on the future of the environmental movement.
“For more than 30 years, I have worked at the intersection of economics and conservation at organizations such as Resources for the Future, Conservation International, and the Conservation Strategy Fund, which I founded. What I have seen in recent years is that the environmental movement has become unmoored from nature for a reason of its own making: The movement has set its sights on the biggest environmental issue of all—climate change—but it has done so as if the planet’s climate is unrelated to its wild places. Nature is what gave the environmental movement its purpose, gave its founders their calling. Today it rides in the back seat.”
