> I've often noticed a striking undercurrent of Malthusianism in even
> mainstream Green discourse, not to mention the oft anti-humanism implicit
> (sometimes explicit) in the more extreme versions...
I have great respect for the various Green parties and social movements, but I have to admit, it's much worse than an undercurrent - it's a huge chunk of ecological thinking, which tends to rewrite social history ("stuff happens, but not how we think it does") into dire visions of natural history ("stuff happens, we're doomed").
But it doesn't need to be this way. John Bellamy Foster and countless others have been hard at work historicizing and radicalizing ecological critiques, showing how human decision-making and the process of capitalist accumulation is driving us towards catastrophe. And the developmental states of the world are starting to go green - the EU and China are spending serious resources on renewable energy, e.g. A polite way of saying the future for eco-socialisms is quite bright.
-- DRR