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| Image credit. Since I was a child, I have been told that man destroys the environment; in all the years since, I have seen nothing but a breathtaking improvement of the environment, except in countries based on totalitarian government. For many people, it is second nature to believe in environmental degradation, even when the world before their noses is getting cleaner, healthier, and at the same time more beneficial for us human beings. |
The West is in the grip of a new religion: ecologism. In its pervasive, ideologically handy, that is in its naturally simplistic version, the cult of sustainability is a variant of Marx' vision of the apocalyptic end of capitalism. The radical green creed is the last refuge of the despairing communist in his frantic quest to retell the ballad of the capitalist apocalypse. And so he reveals to us that under the capitalist mode of production, nature, our planet, mankind are bound to perish in unspeakable turmoil.
Under the spell of such ideological preconception, which has thoroughly conquered Western minds, people no longer look at the facts nor do they care to think their principles through — as indeed religious fanatics are apt to. As always, bigotry invites intellectual short-sightedness and laziness.
I must admit, I am puzzled considering that "green" charlatanry seems to be able to trump and replace science at a time when access to the methods and insights of science has never been more widely available. The popularisation of science being among the great achievements of the left, it is startling that the modern regressive left is avidly dismantling science in order to erect its "green" theocracy.
Mind you, "green" is not green, i.e. nature-friendly, but a disaster for nature (witness the multi-pronged destruction of nature thanks to the wind power craze), the centre of which ought to be man, who, however, perversely is the main object of "green" hatred.
Educational standards may have declined, but they are still considerable, yet people seem simply to prefer a new religion to the sobriety of science. Even though it is still within the purview of most of us to understand that green mythology is contradicted by science right, left, and centre.
Even if one were to accept the many false "scientific" assumptions about climate change / global warming — appreciating for instance that CO2 is irrelevant to temperatures on earth, CO2 concentrations trailing temperatures rather than acting as their cause —, one would still have to own up to the fact that the radical and hugely costly measures by which Germany is trying to stop global warming do not add so much as a blip to the intended reversal of temperatures — in fact, they increase rather than diminish the country's carbon footprint. However, people do not care to take note of this, pursuing the destruction of the German economy for the religious fun of it.
What is perhaps most disturbing of it all, is the fact that the more level-headed do not dare to oppose the religious mainstream; professors tell me that doing so would be professional suicide; they defer telling the truth to the time when they have gone into retirement.
Let us take a step back and look at man's relationship with his environment over the full span of human civilisation.
Man could never afford to be a net destroyer of the environment vital to his well-being, and it takes a bogey tale of Marxian pedigree to mesmerise modern man with a sense of guilt and the sure prospect of a planet destroyed by our species.
Join Julian Simon in looking at the facts and taking a different view as a result:
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