Environmentalism as a social and political movement mirrors the dualities existing within mankind generally in failing to connect desired aims with daily deeds. This is partly because environmentalism has emerged from two contrasting schools of thought, the one nature-orientated, the other centred on technique and mode of organisation. But it is also due to the takeover of much of environmentalist philosophy by groups, both well-meaning and selfish, who either fail to recognise their own hypocrisies or simply shield narrow political aims with the armour of environmental morality. The potential for conflict is therefore great as new patterns of political and economic power emerge but cannot be accommodated by an existing order that finds compromise difficult.
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