I am watching Life After People, a speculative piece on the History Channel about how the planet would change (for the better) if the human race were suddenly to disappear entirely.
Am I being a righty paranoid in sensing a certain Green self-Schadenfreude in this undertaking? The program provides many vistas of a "recovered" Earth, a return to Eden once the evil humans are gone.
It is not until the last two minutes of the piece that one of the interviewed scientists pointed out that if there were no humans, then no matter what happened to the planet after us, there would be no one to notice it.
As one of the Seven Pillars of Liberalism, environmentalism has its necessary internal drama of oppressors and victims. In this pillar, the victim is the earth itself and the oppressors are the human race. Just as Liberalism's other six pillars are a barely disguised wish to erase the white male Christian capitalist patriotic gun-wielders, so in this culminating pillar, the whole species itself dreams its own well-justified disappearance.
Funny how this hatred of some of us ends in hatred of all of us, for our own good.
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In Christianity, this world was once a paradise. Human wickedness brought about a situation such that only a few in-the-know people are possibly going to be saved while most of humanity - indeed the Earth itself - is going to be destroyed. And destroyed any day now!
Things are different among the environmentalists. According to the environmentalists, this world was once a paradise. Human wickedness brought about a situation such that only a few in-the-know people are possibly going to be saved while most of humanity - indeed the Earth itself - is going to be destroyed. And destroyed any day now!
'Radical environmentalism' is found mostly in the Protestant countires (US, UK, Germany) and not as much in the Catholic countries (Italy, South / Central America). I am not the first to suggest that the environmental apocalypse is a secularized echo of the Protestant apocalypse.
No slight against any parties involved, just an observation.
- Trevor Blake
A co-worker of mine was all excited about reading the book released this year about the same topic. She said, "I actually kind of wish it would come to pass. The plants and animals would be better off without us."
There's no other guilt and self-loathing that compares to that of the descendants of white Western Europeans.
My take on this matches Trevor Blake's and I find an article here which matches it even more clearly:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121486841811817591.html?mod=todays_colum
HT: http://gayandright.blogspot.com
Whatever science there may be in all this, the religious/psychological element is hard to miss.
I tend to interpret Liberalism in general as a kind of Judeo-Christianity which has lost its foundation yet retains its patterns of thought and behavior.
"I tend to interpret Liberalism in general as a kind of Judeo-Christianity which has lost its foundation yet retains its patterns of thought and behavior."
So would I. Very well said.
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