ABSTRACT
O r think about contemporary environmentalism. O n the one hand, environmentalism is seen-along with feminism-as highlighting the political character o f previously apolitical social actions. Arne Naess, the grand old man o f the socalled deep ecology movement, writes:
All our actions, and all our thoughts, even the most private, are politically relevant. If I use a clipped tea leaf, some sugar, and some boiling water, and I drink the product, I am supporting the tea and sugar prices and more indirectly I interfere in the works and capital conditions of the tea and sugar plantations of the developing countries. In order to heat the water, I may have used wood or electricity or some other kind of energy, and then I take part in the great controversy concerning energy use.8
