The foes of sensible environmental policy want you to believe that there is a binary question to conservation. Yes, you believe in global warming; no, you’re a denier — there are no other options. Either you’re good or you’re not. Many people are suspicious of global warming because it’s one of those-easily abused catch-all concepts [...]
Posts under ‘Conservation’
Appeal
Oftentimes one hears it whispered that we live in an age of appearance rather than substance. An age of what seems to be, rather than what is. An era when impression weighs heavier than content. Something catches our eye; we glimpse at it for a brief moment. Perhaps we let the thing slide through our [...]
The Immune System
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche cannot be described as a traditional philosopher. He consistently returns to the the theme of health, he refers to himself as a cultural physician, and he famously wrote, “my genius is in my nostrils.” He may be referring to how in everyday life we are predominantly conscious of the divide between true [...]
Preservationism
A new type of political thinker is emerging into the shattered hulk of modernity. While the modern time is powerful in technology and gilded in convenience, the dark inner core is a tendency to consume and deconstruct all things, and these new thinkers target that impulse. They tend to be less concerned with the political [...]
Global swarming
The problem with global warming as a theory is twofold: first, the science is not absolute because science is not absolute; second, global warming is a political surrogate for environmental damage as a whole. We have a modern mythic trust in “science,” but science doesn’t exist. People study and get degrees in science, and then [...]
How government destroys the environment
Many of us are hoping right now that humanity recognizes its vast and ongoing destruction of its environment and decides to do something about it. Most expect government to be the method. However, the record of governments helping the environment has been a spotty one — with one exception, which we’ll cover later. Generally, government [...]
Passive genocide
We are slowly killing off our big animals. Since it is unpopular to mention this, our cowardly leaders will not mention it to avoid upsetting our voters; they, in turn, don’t want to hear about how their mundane acts may lead to vast and evil consequences. After all, we all want the big suburban home, [...]
False activism
If you are lucky in politics, your idea is popular but not too popular. If you’re not too popular, you can make the news and fight as an underdog, and after a long time, come into power. By then, you’ve shaped your idea clearly and strongly. If you are too popular, your idea becomes a [...]
Hatred
A quick note, as I’m traveling: There are two types of hatred, and these are radically separate. Hating a thing. The flip side of love is hatred. When something threatens what you love, you want to destroy it. It is important however to regulate your hatred. If you hate the wrong thing, such as that [...]
