Response from Jonathon Porritt
The green movement has always been made up of those who address the world as it is (the realists), those who address the world as they would like it to be (the idealists), and those who seek to do both at the same time (the radical pragmatists). Julian Rose is an eloquent and influential idealist – with the one tiny failing that he thinks that everyone else must be like him! Those who aren’t are then accused of collective intellectual failure, selling out to big corporate interests, and betraying the hallowed memory of Fritz Schumacher – who, ...
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