One difficulty, as Bowers points out, is in their tendency to fragment ecological diversity into specific political causes. While the environmental movement is made up of a wide range of interest groups, many of them deal only with specific environmental problems, and fail to consider how broader cultural assumptions are causal factors, and how these assumptions are perpetuated by education. Bowers believes that a major cause of this dysfunction is that environmentalists rely on many of the same modernist assumptions as those they claim to be fighting, especially regarding uses of science and technology. He insists that environmentalists develop broader, more coherent strategies for educating people on the implications of the ecological crisis. Even Al Gore, the American vice president, claims to be an environmentalist.
Many corporations claim to have environmental policies, and advocate a program of 'wise use'.