On "doing least harm" to the land.
A conversation with the Ecomodernist Society of North America
After Resilience.org published my essay Fast-Tracking Extinction: The Rush to Streamline Permitting for “Green Energy,” Gabe Ignetti, with the Ecomodernist Society of North America, invited me on to his podcast with cohost Karl Pauls. I really enjoyed my conversation with these two individuals, and though I don’t consider myself an ecomodernist, I appreciated the thoughtfulness of their questions and the concern for what we are doing to our “ailing Earth.”
Great interview, Rob. Really helpful.
So I've come to your Substack through Dougald's recommendation (I also saw and heard you on the recent zoom call series on At Work In The Ruins), and am finding myself on a fascinating journey through this whole topic. I'm currently reading Jem Bendell's new book, particularly because I have appreciated his writings on world happenings over the past three years. Remembering that Dougald is pretty critical of Jem in his own book, I've just gone back to it to see exactly why again, and in doing also realised who the Ecomodernists are and have re-read his criticisms of that movement too. Which is also really interesting because I have been following Michael Shellenberger recently, regarding the "censorship-industrial-complex." It feels like everything out there is tied together somehow in ways I can't yet quite grasp, and the various commentators are linked with one another in ways that are in flux and slightly confusing! Does that make sense?
Really well put, Jason. Thanks.