> People I had thought were on my side were arguing aggressively for the industrializing of wild places in the name of human desire. ... Motorway through downland: bad. Wind power station on downland: good. Container port wiping out estuary mudflats: bad. Renewable hydropower barrage wiping out estuary mudflats: good. Destruction minus carbon equals sustainability.

Exactly right. The industrialization of wild places to satisfy the luxury beliefs of coastal elites is sickening.

After a decade of flopping about he decides we all went wrong with The Enlightenment.

https://unherd.com/2023/05/is-there-anything-left-to-conserv...

Pray.

(2011)

Guessing from the comments? Don't see a publication date...

Right, I also don't see one but it seems like the comments were immediately plentiful.