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| Ron House... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:00 pm |
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"Climate Change": understanding an evil religion
http://peacelegacy.org/articles/climate-change-understanding-evil-religion
The evidence is coming out that "climate change" is not merely a
description of an ongoing process in the life of our planet, but a new
religious phenomenon. In an article in New Scientist one of its
"professors" comes out of the closet and tells us as much:
"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has constructed a
powerful scientific consensus about the physical transformation of the
world's climate. ... One way I [make sense of what climate change
actually means] is to rethink our discourses about climate change in
terms of four enduring myths. ... The value in identifying these
mythical stories in our discourses about climate change is that they
allow us to see climate change not as simply an environmental problem to
be solved, but as an idea that is being mobilised in various ways around
the world. ...
"The world's climates will keep on changing, with human influences
now inextricably entangled with those of nature. So too will the idea of
climate change keep changing as we find new ways of using it to meet our
needs. We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate
change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects. Whereas a
modernist reading of climate may once have regarded it as merely a
physical condition for human action, we must now come to terms with
climate change operating simultaneously as an overlying, but more fluid,
imaginative condition of human existence."
This is from one Mike Hulme, professor of climate change at the
University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. The UEA clearly needs to ask
itself whether it is funding a professor of science or a professor of
his own non-theistic religion. There's lots of disturbing stuff in the
complete article - please do read it. But let's look at the short pieces
above and ponder.
Sentence one is classic PC/postmodernist/anti-science obscurantism.
Leave aside the fact that science can not and should not work by
consensus. For those who haven't followed this stuff, "construction of
reality" is a required tenet of the false postmodernist religion: the
truth is not out there; we all make up our own 'truths', no one's
'truth' is any better than anyone else's 'truth'; he who believes the
Sun rises because the Earth is rotating daily is no more correct than he
who believes it rises because the morning chant was correctly intoned by
the priests. Harsh? I don't think so. Only space and time prevent giving
any number of examples. Here's how it works: first you convince yourself
that 'truth' is whatever you choose to believe; then, a sufficient
number of people choose to believe the prognostications (the "truth") of
the committee of high priests (in this case, the IPCC) - who were busy
planning out how to deal with global warming before they had established
that there was any (see Plimer's Heaven and Earth amongst many other
places). There's your consensus, and it is a "scientific" consensus
because we all believe that it is (it is our 'personal truth'). Sad, but
that is how the widespread psychological malfunction which I call the
false religion operates.
Hulme's myths, which I omitted above, were in a nutshell:
* The myth of the lost garden of Eden;
* the coming apocalypse (fear, disaster, cataclysm);
* the Promethean myth of the desire for scientific dominance over
nature
* (this one is so odd I'd better quote it exactly so you don't
think I made it up):
"Finally, the Themisian myth, named after the Greek goddess of
natural law and order, talks about climate change using the language of
justice and equity. Climate change becomes an idea around which calls
for environmental justice are announced, revealing the human urge to
right wrongs."
What people who are rightly alarmed by the obscurantist tidal wave that
is engulfing western society should especially note here is that Hulme
is using these myths to decide what climate change means! Whether
such-and-such degree of warming is caused by humans, and is dangerous in
so-and-so ways to whomever - in other words, the facts of the matter -
do not count in Hulme's concept of the meaning of climate change.
Myth 1, the lost garden, I have already written about in the background
papers for this site. This is a deep, profound, psychological reality in
the human condition. We have alienated ourselves from nature - that much
I'll agree with, and agree that we all need to try to overcome it.
Wingedhearts.org, our website about Australian birds, is Gitie's and my
account of some remarkable nonhuman wise ones, who have helped us
personally reconcile our alienation from nature. But I'll do my
reconciling, thank you very much Mike Hulme, with actual friendships
with actual wild animals, and with real science and evidence-based
analyses of how we can make our planet livable for ourselves and the
world's wildlife. I understand the lost garden, but I am not going to
allow its siren call to pull me back to the world of superstition and
ignorance; I am going forward to a new garden in which our bonds with
nature are reforged in the fire of truth.
Read the rest of the article at:
http://peacelegacy.org/articles/climate-change-understanding-evil-religion
--
Ron House
Building Peace: http://peacelegacy.org
Australian Birds: http://wingedhearts.org
Principle of Goodness academic site: http://principleofgoodness.net |
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