Corporate "environmentalism" is consumer-side environmentalism. "Make
your dollars work for the Earth." "Buy green!" "Purchase this green
gewgaw instead of that ungreen gadget." "Feel guilty about driving your
car."

Consumer-side environmentalism is loath to discuss production.
Consumer-side environmentalism does not challenge the manufacture of
cars. Rather, it assumes that producing more and more cars is a sacred
right never to be questioned.

Production-side environmentalism places blame on the criminal rather
than the victim. It looks at the profits oil companies reap from urban
sprawl rather than demeaning people who have no way to get to work other
than driving a car. Production-side environmentalism looks at an
agro-food industry which profits from transporting highly processed,
over-packaged, nutrient-depleted junk thousands of kilometres rather
than the parent giving in to a child bombarded with Saturday morning
pop-tart-porn TV.
Full article at http://links.org.au/node/843

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