Posted on 03/19/2015 11:51:02 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
".....For decades the National Geographic Society has engaged in serious exploration and scientific inquiry and has earned the confidence of thousands of members/readers. That makes it worrisome that key people there seem to have become followers of the concept of Deep Ecology proclaimed by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1973.
The concept holds that all life, from human to dust mites, should be safe to live and pursue happiness. Although we humans are the only species with the ability to reason, this gives no special privileges; rather, the responsibility for all the others. To do this, we must not exploit the earth’s resources nor overpopulate it. Naess claimed the earth’s population should be reduced from six billion to about 100 million.
This worldview gave early environmentalists something much bigger to worry about than the shrinking habitat of a particular wild animal. It gave them the basis for a secular religion in which the noble cause of biodiversity could only be achieved by reducing industrial production and commerce and, along with these, steady downward pressure on standards of living and population.
“Climate Change” fits the religion neatly. If projections herald natural calamities—sea-level cities underwater; polar ice caps melting—fifty years from now, well, we had better do something right now to prevent it.
It is scientists who are making the projections, so bear in mind these are the computer result of assumptions fed into them. Some of those scientists are living off grants from sources that already believe in the Deep Ecology theory. The insistence that long-range “Climate Change” or “Global Warming” is “settled science” is an ideological/political claim, not a scientific one. To buttress this insistence, however, the proponents treat weather aberrations as evidence of their claims...."
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For me, I started getting the NG as a ten year old in 1964. What a treat it was to get it in the mail each month.
I read every word, and learned so much.
Now, it is just is leftist propaganda.
It is an embarrassing shell of what it once was.
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They will become especially emboldened when they think that robot technology has advanced to the point where it can enable them to live a life of ease on a pristine planet.
Tom Clancy's novel "Rainbow Six" was about such people deciding to kill off most of the human race.
They were too liberal in the 1960s.
Me too. Haven’t bothered with that pretentious rag in decades. But if I ever want to know what a leftist enviro-wacko is thinking, I’ll go grab a NG and find out.
This bizarre pantheistic mysticism somehow doesn't seem to jibe with eighteenth century European rationalism nineteenth century European materialism. I wonder sometimes if these people really do believe that the world is random and meaningless.
yeah - I stopped reading about 12 years ago because of it. sigh a real loss from my child hood.
Another institution infiltrated and co-opted by leftist ideologues, destroying it in their attempts to use it to advance their agenda.
I’m wary. It could be another 1/20/13.
NG turned into crap about 72, canceled my subscription in 75.
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