Yale Environment 360: There is a new environmental agenda out there. One that is inimical to many traditional conservationists, but which is picking up kudos and converts. It calls itself environmental modernism -- which for many is an oxymoron. Wasnt the environmentalism of Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, Greenpeaces warriors against industrial whaling and the nuclear industry, and efforts to preserve the worlds last wild lands, meant to be the antithesis of the modern industrial world?
But the prophets of ecological...