@Simon318ppm

The environmental movement has, in a sense, come full circle. I remember as a small boy talking with my grandad, who was a farmer, about how he had embraced the 'modern'' ways of chemical farming, but observed too late that it was destroying the world he had known - the wildlife, the wildflowers, etc...

50 years ago the focus was on nature conservation and 'the limits to growth' - and there was a strong emphasis on the ethics of one generation using up the earth's resources - "Treat the earth well, it was not given to us by our parents, but loaned to us by our children".

Then, over decades, the focus was shifted by the discoveries and overwhelming data of the climate scientists - out of which came much good, more awareness, practical progress like replacing fossil fuels with renewables - but I do feel something of the earlier movement was lost.

Are we now though going back to a more holistic view ? - mitigating climate change, of course, but embracing also the ethics of depriving future generations of the gifts and beauty of nature, and also embracing economics - the limits to growth, and the shared roots of both ecological breakdown and increasing social inequality in the over-consumption of the wealthy.