Paolo Soleri Offers Long-Winded, Big-Worded Response to The 11th Hour

Perhaps you closed your long Labor Day Weekend with an uplifting trip to the movies to see Leo DiCaprio‘s The 11th Hour and caught the cameo by Paolo Soleri? The architect, who has been building the architectural equivalent of a Bio-Dome in the Arizona desert since 1970, has emailed a six-paragraph statement, plus bullet points, on what’s wrong with the green movement. Like other Soleri statements, we need a translator:

Materialism is by definition the antithesis of green.