Save the planet. Now repeat 1 million times
The fight to preserve the
natural environment is an inherently conservative ideology. Leftists want to claim environmentalism for themselves, but classical conservatism is exactly about preserving what is, or even returning to what was. The left's biggest problem is its ability forget the right-wing, traditionalist roots of some of its own tenets.
To understand those human connections to routine and ritual and the attachment to the past will enable us to think through our own politics better. Not all change is good, that's a given. But not all change is bad, and the left seems to spend an awful lot of time demanding that the clock be turned back....
Fighting change? Sometimes, absolutely. But we must always question our own motives before settling on a final position. Else the chorus keeps hitting the same note. And the majority stops listening to ideologues and whiny naysayers, whatever their tune.