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Environmentalism as Religion: Meet Another Torquemada
In an earlier post I offered some thoughts on environmentalism as religion and later offered David Suzuki as an example of someone out to punish the heretics. Lest you think he was the only Torquemada, I give you James Hansen. In today's Guardian we find a story with the following lead paragraph:James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
I'm sure that my good friend Gus is going to tell me that these folks aren't representative of the mainstream of environmentalist thought or that just because people say things like this, we shouldn't dismiss the environmentalists' concerns completely. I am in agreement with the latter, but I'm increasingly doubtful of the former. James Hansen "heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York." and is often noted as "Al Gore's science advisor."
Just how much more mainstream can you get?More important: who will have the courage to name such demagoguery for what it is?
(HT to Max)- Bluster in the face of defeat by Francois Tremblay (June 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM)
- you got it by Gus diZerega (June 25, 2008 at 12:09 AM)
- Mainstream? by Jeff Haak (June 29, 2008 at 2:35 PM)
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