ALTERNATIVE ECO-FESTIVAL GOING AGAINST THE `GREEN`

07.07.2010 [15:26]
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Baku July 7 (AZERTAC). There was a dark cloud over the sleepy Welsh town of Llangollen last month -- literally and metaphorically -- as a group of around 400 environmentalists camped out under swirling curtains of summer drizzle to debate the collapse of industrial society.

They were gathered for the first Uncivilzation Festival and loosely united under the banner of ``The Dark Mountain Project``, a British environmental group. Most were veteran campaigners, many with decades of experience in lobbying, marching and agitating for various ecological causes -- but now it seems they have lost faith.

``We have to face facts,`` co-organizer of the festival Paul Kingsnorth told CNN.

``Mainstream environmentalism has failed over the last 40 years to have any real effect. It will not be able to stop the damage we are doing to the natural world over the timescale in which we have to act.``

The Dark Mountain Project aims to unite people around the idea that mainstream environmentalism has lost touch with the natural world. It believes that the environmental movement has been co-opted by consumer capitalism and is obsessed with ``greener`` ways to maintain our standard of living.

ALTERNATIVE ECO-FESTIVAL GOING AGAINST THE `GREEN`

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