Global Warming and Hatred of Humanity
Those who were unalterably opposed to technological innovation and societal progress used to be called luddites. Today in at least one highly visible area of our contemporary society they have morphed into the Earth Liberation Front, Greenpeace and other militant fringe groups professing total loyalty to an Earth devoid of not just the works of man but man in total. To hear this significant subset of the environmental movement tell it, humanity has infested Mother Gaia with its carbon based presence and they truly despise it for doing so. With over 6 and ½ billion inhabitants on Earth this presents them with a lot of CO2 spewing life forms to hate.
These modern day luddites rationalize and try to provide cover for their true position by calling for not just the recycling of discarded trash but also the recycling of previously discredited utopian ideas. These retread ideas include promoting the establishment of “perfect” socialist states where wars are outlawed and all the world lives peacefully in the collective as blissful as bees in a hive and as Nature intended. The only twist is these luddites hide the fact that the utopia they wish for does not include the presence of human life.
I will not go into the motives for this belief system as that discussion can invite input from those favoring medical (e.g. dementia) diagnosis, psychological (psychotically induced self-loathing) possibilities, or a theological (evil manifest on Earth) explanation. Whatever the root cause, this wellspring of hatred manifests itself not just on the environmental front but it also nourishes anti-human life issues such as the quest for unfettered abortion on demand and opposition to improving the length and quality of human life on Earth through medical and technological means.
How else does one explain opposition to the use of DDT or genetically enhanced foods?
Somehow to the committed environmentalist the hugely preventable and agonizing (fever, shivering, vomiting, anemia, and convulsions) deaths of about 3 million people, many of these children, each year due to malaria and the equally gruesome deaths of millions more due to hunger are preferable to those deaths related to war in say Darfur. People killed by “natural” causes rather than by other people are the luckiest people in the world.
Therefore it follows that any technological device or idea that could be advanced for the good of man, especially if there is any hint of a connection to greenhouse gas, is to be opposed. And violently opposed if need be. Better to let corn disappear and other crops revert to a wild “natural” state than to choose to breed and graft together hardier varieties to feed the hungry. Better to save the ecosystem, and as a consequence the mosquito, rather than aggressively fight disease. Better to let man become extinct than bend a blade of grass or hurt a fly.
If man caused global warming is a fact and if it were to continue unabated perhaps it would turn most of the world into a tropical or subtropical paradise for malaria carrying mosquitoes. The irony of this scenario, to the luddite, is exquisite. The possibility of the whole of humanity being at the mercy of the tiniest of creatures on earth would be more than the truly insane environmentalist could hope for. The only problem would be that the Al Gores of the world and other similar demagogues who seek to profit from “human caused” global warming would be out of a job.
These modern day luddites rationalize and try to provide cover for their true position by calling for not just the recycling of discarded trash but also the recycling of previously discredited utopian ideas. These retread ideas include promoting the establishment of “perfect” socialist states where wars are outlawed and all the world lives peacefully in the collective as blissful as bees in a hive and as Nature intended. The only twist is these luddites hide the fact that the utopia they wish for does not include the presence of human life.
I will not go into the motives for this belief system as that discussion can invite input from those favoring medical (e.g. dementia) diagnosis, psychological (psychotically induced self-loathing) possibilities, or a theological (evil manifest on Earth) explanation. Whatever the root cause, this wellspring of hatred manifests itself not just on the environmental front but it also nourishes anti-human life issues such as the quest for unfettered abortion on demand and opposition to improving the length and quality of human life on Earth through medical and technological means.
How else does one explain opposition to the use of DDT or genetically enhanced foods?
Somehow to the committed environmentalist the hugely preventable and agonizing (fever, shivering, vomiting, anemia, and convulsions) deaths of about 3 million people, many of these children, each year due to malaria and the equally gruesome deaths of millions more due to hunger are preferable to those deaths related to war in say Darfur. People killed by “natural” causes rather than by other people are the luckiest people in the world.
Therefore it follows that any technological device or idea that could be advanced for the good of man, especially if there is any hint of a connection to greenhouse gas, is to be opposed. And violently opposed if need be. Better to let corn disappear and other crops revert to a wild “natural” state than to choose to breed and graft together hardier varieties to feed the hungry. Better to save the ecosystem, and as a consequence the mosquito, rather than aggressively fight disease. Better to let man become extinct than bend a blade of grass or hurt a fly.
If man caused global warming is a fact and if it were to continue unabated perhaps it would turn most of the world into a tropical or subtropical paradise for malaria carrying mosquitoes. The irony of this scenario, to the luddite, is exquisite. The possibility of the whole of humanity being at the mercy of the tiniest of creatures on earth would be more than the truly insane environmentalist could hope for. The only problem would be that the Al Gores of the world and other similar demagogues who seek to profit from “human caused” global warming would be out of a job.
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