Last Week's Event: Fright Night with n+1: Environmentalism and The Politics of Fear

You can check out a summary in the Times of the debate on fear and environmentalism that we attended at the New York Public Library on Tuesday last week, the day before Halloween. The starting point for the debate was Alex Gourevitch's provocative argument:

Environmentalism is not just some politics. It’s a political project, a full-bodied ideology, and one that presents itself in terms of progress and aspiration. But when you look at what this ideology is built on, it’s built on the idea that a collective threat that makes security the basic principle of politics and makes the struggle for survival the basic and central aim of our social and political life. This, to me, is not a progressive politics at all.

You can read the full text of this attack on Environmentalism from the Left on the website of the journal n+1.