7Intelligent Growth
Balancing Ecological Healthand Economic Progress
It is tempting to think that Mother Nature will be safe now that an environmental ethic has swept around the world. Even business firms are competing to prove how “green” they are. But recent events suggest that the problems remain formidable. The “Big Green” initiative in California was defeated soundly in 1994, and an antienvironment backlash is under way in other parts of the United States.1
These reactions represent more than resistance by growth advocates. In a wholistic world, they are another part of the whole, telling us that environmentalism is not easily reconciled with protecting jobs, improving living standards, avoiding government intrusion, and other issues that ...
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