Green Liberty is in solidarity with Murray Bookchin’s distinction between being an environmentalist versus an ecologist. Listen to this significant lecture from 1978.
Lecture by author, social theorist, and environmentalist Murray Bookchin titled “The Ecology Movement: Utopia or Technocracy?” delivered as part of the 1978 Towards Tomorrow event at the University of Massachusetts. Bookchin talks about the current and future state of the ecology movement. He defines the ecology movement as another name for technology and states that the movement is losing its perspective of the word “utopia.”
Check out audio reading of an essay from Bookchin’s Post Scarcity Anarchism.
In this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a “post-scarcity” era. Technological advances during the 20th century have expanded production in the pursuit of corporate profit at the expense of human need and ecological sustainability. New possibilities for human freedom must combine an ecological outlook with the dissolution of hierarchical social relations, capitalism and canonical political orientation. Bookchin’s utopian vision, rooted in the realities of contemporary society, remains refreshingly pragmatic. “Book-chin makes a trenchant analysis of modern society and offers a pointed, provocative discussion of the ecological crisis.