ABSTRACT
The post-environmentalism theory emerged in the 1990s as part of a larger corpus of theoretical critiques pointing out the weakness of the sustainable development paradigm and the inefficacy of mainstream environmental politics. By critically building upon the mentioned contributions, political scientist Ingolfur Bluhdorn proposed a theoretical advancement from post-environmentalism to post-ecologism, in order to overcome the conventionally accepted definition and practices of environmentalism itself. In 2004 consultants Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus published a pamphlet titled “The Death of Environmentalism” that gave rise to a large debate in the US public policy sector and in the environmental sociology field. Post-environmentalism claims that the naive presentation of environmental issues as merely pertaining to nature conservation and preservation undermined their high political and social relevance and the possibility for environmental campaigns to be successful.
