{"id":745,"date":"2005-02-12T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-12T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/02\/12\/more-on-the-deaththing\/"},"modified":"2005-02-12T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-12T16:42:00","slug":"more-on-the-deaththing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/more-on-the-deaththing\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the “DeathThing…”"},"content":{"rendered":"
The concept of the “Death of Environmentalism<\/a>” seems to have taken a strong hold within the progressive<\/a> movement as an apt metaphor for the splintered, issue-driven nature of our organization. Dave Roberts has posted some compelling ideas<\/a> from other online progressives on the subject. Ultimately, the message seems to be that we need to find common ground (or a “compelling narrative”) within the movement rather than zealously guarding the ground of our particular interest group. I don’t think this means sacrificing, say, environmental progress for concerted effort on health care; rather, it means doing something the right has done very well over the past 30-40 years — creating a conceptual framework (Matt Yglesias uses the dreaded word “ideology<\/a>“) that creates a genuinely progressive foundation for addressing single issues. Think of recent memes<\/a> from the right: “the culture of life,” “the ownership society,” etc. While it’s easy to argue that these are merely linguistic covers for a radical agenda, they give people a sense of larger meaning to the pursuit of their more focused agendas. We can do this without becoming the rabid ideologues that seem to have co-opted conservatism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The concept of the “Death of Environmentalism” seems to have taken a strong hold within the progressive movement as an apt metaphor for the splintered, issue-driven nature of our organization. [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n