Yeah, environmentalist attitudes towards e.g. GMOs and nuclear power look awfully purity-minded to me. I’m not sure whether I want to count environmentalism/Green thought as part of the mainline Left, though; it’s certainly not central to it, and seems to be its own thing in a lot of ways.
(Cladistically speaking it’s definitely not. But cladistics can get you in trouble when you’re looking at political movements.)
Yeah, environmentalist attitudes towards e.g. GMOs and nuclear power look awfully purity-minded to me. I’m not sure whether I want to count environmentalism/Green thought as part of the mainline Left, though; it’s certainly not central to it, and seems to be its own thing in a lot of ways.
(Cladistically speaking it’s definitely not. But cladistics can get you in trouble when you’re looking at political movements.)