When told that my rejection of civilization is idealist I say:
It is not idealism to recognize the science of climate change, nor the extraordinary burden industrial civilization is putting on our planet, nor the simple logical step that growth of consumption cannot exceed our rapidly depleting finite resources, nor that the maintenance of our landbases is absolutely essential for the preservation of life, both human and nonhuman, on planet Earth.
The real idealism is that we can bring industrial economies in sync with our rates of consumption and growth, or that we can exist separate from the nature that gives us life, or that we can solve our problems by pretending they do not exist in the magnitude they do, or if at all.
That is the real idealism, or delusion, whichever you prefer to tell yourself.
(Source: americawakiewakie)
