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What makes adherents of the 'environmental' movement, the 'greens,' insane?
Well....if one can picture an adult- at least in terms of chronological age- advocating that society give up technological advances, the free market economy, private property, and that society should consider the views of stone age peoples as more advanced.....\
..that's pretty much text-book insane.
And how about that attachment of environmentalists to a childish view of ancient peoples, and a bigoted one of the white race?
(Of course, thanks to the Liberal worldview, it's open season on white folks and Christians.)
7. "The wisdom of the tribal peoples, and its favourable contrast with the cruel rapacity of the white man’s approach to the environment, has become one of the mantras of the Green movement. Primitive people, supposedly living in harmony with nature, have become, in Wallace Kaufman’s phrase: ‘the gold standard of the environmental movement. Against this standard it measures the values and achievements of our society’(Kaufman, W., "No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking,", p.57)
Whelan, Op.Cit., p.23
a. "The environmental holocaust will only be averted, according to this argument, when
we are humble enough to sit at the feet of tribal peoples and absorb their wisdom."
Ibid.
OMG.
8. "In the neo-religion of the Greens, the tribal man and woman are Adam and Eve, their home is the Garden of Eden, and their state that which can obtain before the serpent of greed makes people eat the apple of industrial development."
North, R.D., "Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress," p.198.
Insane?
Well....if one can picture an adult- at least in terms of chronological age- advocating that society give up technological advances, the free market economy, private property, and that society should consider the views of stone age peoples as more advanced.....\
..that's pretty much text-book insane.
And how about that attachment of environmentalists to a childish view of ancient peoples, and a bigoted one of the white race?
(Of course, thanks to the Liberal worldview, it's open season on white folks and Christians.)
7. "The wisdom of the tribal peoples, and its favourable contrast with the cruel rapacity of the white man’s approach to the environment, has become one of the mantras of the Green movement. Primitive people, supposedly living in harmony with nature, have become, in Wallace Kaufman’s phrase: ‘the gold standard of the environmental movement. Against this standard it measures the values and achievements of our society’(Kaufman, W., "No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking,", p.57)
Whelan, Op.Cit., p.23
a. "The environmental holocaust will only be averted, according to this argument, when
we are humble enough to sit at the feet of tribal peoples and absorb their wisdom."
Ibid.
OMG.
8. "In the neo-religion of the Greens, the tribal man and woman are Adam and Eve, their home is the Garden of Eden, and their state that which can obtain before the serpent of greed makes people eat the apple of industrial development."
North, R.D., "Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress," p.198.
Insane?