Posts Tagged ‘environmentalism’
2012: Why are we so afraid of the future?
Posted at 2:07 pm | Filed Under Michael Crichton, Skepticism, Viewpoint, environmentalism
It’s a truism that films about the future are more about people’s current attitudes and fears projected into the future than real predictions.
And the next, greatest disaster movie 2012 by Roland Emmerich is no exception. It’s really the message of extreme environmentalism that we humans are sinning against nature and Mother Earth and one day [...]
“Just unspoilt landscapes and the opportunity to consider the threat of climate change”
Posted at 7:44 pm | Filed Under Al Gore, Viewpoint, environmentalism
From The Australian:
LIBERTY, ecology, gastronomy! If only all revolutions were this pleasant.
A Michelin-starred chef, an international adventurer and a veritable UN of diners – French, Swiss, Russian, South African, Singaporean, Australian, plus a Korean celebrity and his film crew – gathered for lunch on a remote sandbank on the Great Barrier Reef.
Surely this was not [...]
Fusion Power, Climate Change and Pascal’s Wager
Posted at 9:42 pm | Filed Under BBC, Religion, Skepticism, Uncategorized, Viewpoint, WeatherAction, Webcomics, climate science, environmentalism
This post may seem a little schizophrenic, but bear with me.
The BBC website, also known as the media arm of Environmental Panic Inc., produced a fascinating article on the struggle to fund the next experimental setup to produce fusion power.
An international plan to build a nuclear fusion reactor is being threatened by rising costs, delays [...]
Mirror images: religion and environmentalism
Posted at 2:20 pm | Filed Under Religion, Skepticism
Just a note on an essay from George Mason University’s History News Network blog, on the symmetry between organized religion and environmentalism (or at least the catastrophic kind getting the headlines at the moment):
Both are highly moralistic and use the language and strategies of “sinfulness.” This also involves an implied and often explicit claim to [...]