Environmentalists have spent the last 40 years telling Americans what

Environmentalists have spent the last 40 years telling Americans what they can’t have and can’t be without ever telling people what they can have and can be. The new, post-environmental politics must focus more on unleashing human possibility than constraining human activity. If this new, aspirational politics succeeds, Bill McKibben recently wrote, “it won’t be environmentalism anymore. It will be something much more important.”