Eco-Optimisim

[Gordon Fitch]

Gar Lipow:
> ... 
> For comparison I can think of a lot of occasions when feminists have
> gotten their facts wrong. (For example male violence against women does
> not peak during the Superbowl.)  And it is not that uncommon for
> individual feminists to be contemptuous of working class men. In spite
> of this would anyone fail to recognize that the an attack on the
> feminist movement as either counterfactual or anti-worker is
> fundamentally wrong.
> ...

I think the question is not the validity of environmentalism
or feminism or their application to the poor or the working
class, but whether lying is a good strategy for advancing the
causes, and if not, why it was employed.  I speculate that it 
is a bourgeois habit, which can be observed in their way of
dealing with the government and the media.  Unfortunately, I
don't have the resources to track down the geneaology of
each fiction, so my speculation remains a mere speculation.