> We may be seeing the rise of new relgion (for better or worse): the > religion of environmentalism. > > cf http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speeches/speeches_quote05.html
The title promises an interesting article, but it's a big disappointment. It's mostly strawman arguments -- instead of talking about sustainability of technology, he goes on a rant about wars, plagues and the evil wilderness. Finally he gives it all away by telling the readers that "second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was"!! Come on, this guy has studied medicine (like the medical professors who were paid by Big Tobacco for decades to claim that smoking is healthy..). This guy is simply a hired liar, and a dilettantish one at that. Talk about religion -- the religion of mammon, yeah... It's true that some have made a religion of environmentalism. But this has to be carefully distinguished from the real issues of environmental degradation. Yes there are religious tree-huggers, but there are also environmentalists who envision environmental technologies that have nothing to do with wilderness or "garden of Eden" but are about a sustainable technological society. Crichton has to lump them all together with the nutcases because he simply doesn't have any arguments against rational environmentalism. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
