> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:11:15 -0400
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: eco-optimism -- give me a damn break!
>
> Chris Kromm wrote:
>
>> From: Doug Henwood
>>> Though I wouldn't go all the way with him, I think James Heartfield
>>> (and his former comrades in LM) have a point when they argue that
>>> environmentalism appeals to an upper class contempt for the workers,
>>> and fits nicely with financiers' taste for austerity.
>>
>> James Heartfield is able to blather such nonsense -- with other LBOers
>> wagging their heads in approval -- because they haven't spent any time in
>> the trenches with the environmental justice movement, lead by working class
>> African Americans and Latinos, especially in the South.
>
> Well of course. The environmental justice movement is an excellent
> thing. But that's not mainstream environmentalism - the kind
> practiced by big DC-based organizations and the philanthropists who
> fund them (centered around the Rockefeller crowd). Big Green really
> doesn't care about working class people of any color, unless they
> crowd into the national parks and create unseemly spectacles.
>
> Doug