Environmentalists Are Not Lonely

According to environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author Paul Hawken, the environmentalist and social justice movement is by far the largest on Earth. Although groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club get the most ink, there are literally hundreds of thousands of smaller groups that help ameliorate the complex and eroding relationship between mankind and the natural world.

And in addition to its sheer size, it boasts other unique characteristics, e.g., it has no leader (though it has spokespeople) and it undergoes no schisms, since, according to Hawken, it’s already “fully atomized.” In fact, it’s undergoing a sort of reverse schism, in which various people and groups are hooking up.

Here, Hawken discusses all this and his latest book “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It.” It’s a fascinating talk.