- Re: You either believe climate "science" or you don't. Equating it with medieval prophecy and Archived Message
Posted by Thomas Newfield
on November 10, 2019, 11:42 pm, in reply to "You either believe climate "science" or you don't. Equating it with medieval prophecy and "
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Read the article a few days ago. What struck me was the parallels drawn with mediaeval child crusades and child seers. Arguments to "progress" - that they were dumb then and now we have advanced, I'm afraid, betray a complete ignorance of modern history and frankly insane view of modern psychology - not that you were doing that Dan. For me the past is the only reality and is always always repeated. Arguments to progress amount to nothing more than the pride that precedes the fall. About false quotations and so on - fair enough, I did not research them. It's quite possible this is a scurrilous bit of hackwork it was unwise to post. I'm not seeking to cast man-made climate change in doubt personally. For me the question is, ultimately, how to meet the situation as it is: irreversible within historical time, begetting various collapses, inevitably. Scaring the shit out of children is not top of the list, and it's not my aim to "dismiss concern". Although disempowered "concern" is a big problem. BTW this fast breeder nuclear tech hardly inspires me but it is a quite different technology to the trad nuclear tech. I do detect an air of the witch hunt in the vigour of these responses. Strategic Culture is one of the most intelligent sites out there even with actual Russians occasionally, rarely writing for it. Just cause some yanqui-doodle amateur peddlers of 2nd hand "fact-check" blanket prognistications label it "right wing" - are we supposed to eschew the decades of diplomatic experience and knowledge contained within, loads of research? (Plenty of lefties write for it too anyway, alelulia.) Is this method scientific in any way? (Perhaps it is, since the advent of "peer-reviewed EBS" as the "gold-standard" of wiki-science, as I call it, back in the Year Zero (the '90s to you and I). Oh and btw Russia's fossil fuel dependency is much less than say the USA. Of course they need it for industry still but no longer rely on fuel exports for revenue. Industry is moving toward this nuclear fast breeder thing. Dmitry Orlov is good on this. This guy is great too: https://www.strategic-culture.org/contributors/patrick-armstrong/. I really can't see the Dresden (non-)parallel John, sorry. What concerns me most about my daughter's future is finding decent, responsible, reliable and fun, creative, courageous people to live with and around. I do pray for that. Night night! |