Posted on 09/13/2006 12:22:22 PM PDT by ChessExpert
Al Gores movie, An Inconvenient Truth, employs a variety of techniques to convince the viewer of what Gore apparently believes: that hurricane activity, melting ice sheets, floods, droughts, etc. are all becoming more frequent because of man-made global warming. His campaign to raise public awareness of global warming is reminiscent of Rachel Carsons 1962 book, Silent Spring, about the negative environmental and human health effects of using the pesticide DDT.
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It's pathetic how environmentalism has turned into a PC substitute for having religious beliefs.
Every time someone brings up the fact We're in a warming period, I tell them that after every warming in history, there comes a radical cooling. They look shocked at the prospect.
like Gore got to sitting in the Oval Office.
Actually, the word probably isn't pathetic the word is scary.
I agree.
G. K. Chesterton said something like this: Those who cease to believe in God, do not believe in nothing - they believe in everything. That can include environmentalism, earth worship, paganism, Marxism, Nazism, Freudian psychology, extraterrestrials, and perhaps even Darwinism. There are many reasons for junk science. But one I think is to find meaning to life absent God in your life.
Looks good. Thanks!
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