Ed. note: This is Part 2 of a six-part series. “America’s Enlightenment Heritage” (Part 1) is here; “Inhuman Rights” (Part 3) is here; “Philosophic Conflict” (Part 4) is here; “The Value of Nature” (Part 5) is here; and “The ‘Ideal’ of Primitivism” (Part 6) is here. “The ultimate goal of the mainstream environmentalist movement, therefore, […]