Sorting old papers last weekend, I found letter from London editor about book chapter I contributed to a book about green politics in Europe. I wrote about green lifestyle change, having recently published my first book, Home Ecology. His letter said that he had removed references to meat and butcher shops because “this is a green book.” The certainty of some environmentalists that their particular position is Truth never appealed to me, and the variety of certainties was always amusing. I remember a letter from a reader that said I should have made it clear the only “green” form of education was home schooling. Sounds a lot like religious fundamentalism, doesn’t it?
The moral certainty of environmentalists
About the Author: Karen Christensen
Karen Christensen is an entrepreneur, environmentalist, and writer. She is the owner and CEO of Berkshire Publishing Group, a research associate of the Fairbank Center at Harvard, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and founder of the Train Campaign. She was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Press, Her Substack newsletter, The Way We Live Now, has over 12,000 subscribers: www.karenchristensen.substack.com.
I wonder if he would consider an indigenous people like the Inuit to be green. Their very existence is centered around animal products.
How wonderful to find your blog. I was inspired by your book Home Ecology 10 years ago, and bought some more of your books. Now I’m a green campaigner and director of a charity.
And I live in Berkshire (UK).