8.27.2009 2:31 pm/Matthew Gipp
The New Earnestness
The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert tears into the trendy practice of Thoreauvian eco-stunts – which typically consist of middle class white people voluntarily forsaking things in the name of conservation. And book deals.
Kolbert’s piece isn’t the first such criticism that I’ve read (that last link was to an excellent Mother Jones piece published last year) but hers is easily my favorite.
[...] rational human being would be tempted to see this as another eco-stunt, but listen: Egan gave up technology only because technology brings news (news being the enemy, [...]