ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING IN A POST MODERN WORLD
Posted on: October 11, 2021
THIS POST IS A STUDY OF SUPERSTITION AS THE PRIMARY DRIVING FORCE IN ECO WACKO ENVIRONMENTALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF POST MODERNISM.
WE PROPOSE THAT THE THEORY OF HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING IS A CREATION OF THIS LINE OF THINKING.
PART-1: SEAN MCDOWELL, THE RELIGION OF APOCALYPTIC ENVIRONMENTALISM
LINK: https://seanmcdowell.org
SeanMcDowell.org
“I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.” – Greta Thunberg, student activist. Have you ever wondered why people are so drawn to apocalyptic environmentalism? Why do so many people believe the narrative that we are irreversibly destroying the environment and the world will end soon? There must be a good reason why people like Leonardo DiCaprio and Greta Thunberg promote doomsday scenarios as for example that modern civilization will end soon but that there are things the humans can and must do to save the earth from this doomsday. These doomsday obsessions are also promoted by the media and by politicians.
Here is the question: Where is all this coming from? What is the deeper reason for otherwise rational humans to be acting this way? What Sean says is that there is a DEEPER REASON.
THE REST OF THIS POST IS THE BLOGGER’S ABBREVIATED VERSION OF WHAT SEAN SAYS. >>>
THE DEEPER REASON IS OUR NEED FOR RELIGION IN A RATIONAL WORLD OF SCIENCE WHERE CONVENTIONAL RELIGION DOES NOT FIT.
Apocalyptic activism is a new kind of secular religion and in that context, the environmentalism movement of our time is the dominant secular religion of the educated, upper-middle-class elite. It provides a new story about our collective identity and individual purpose. It designates good guys and bad guys, heroes and villains, the holy and the sinners but not in the traditional language of religion but in the modern language of science, which is thought to give it the assumed legitimacy. And it is thus that environmentalism has replaced Christianity in the west. Christianity has facilitated the environmentalism interpretation with Genesis where we find that humans are created in God’s image and given Dominion over nature such that humans are not part of nature but its masters and caretakers.
In the Christian tradition, humans have failed to be in a proper relationship with God. In apocalyptic environmentalism, humans have failed to be in a proper relationship with nature. Rather than looking to priests to interpret scripture, apocalyptic environmentalism looks to SCIENCE for authority. Recycling has replaced communion as a “spiritual” practice. And rather than yearning for Heaven, when we are at peace with God and others, apocalyptic environmentalism yearns for a future when we are at peace with “the envronment”, a weird reference to the humanless nature of Bambi and friends.
Apocalyptic environmentalism borrows the trappings of the Christian worldview from sin to redemption, rites, and salvation. A case of good vs. evil. According to Michael Shellenberger, apocalyptic environmentalism provides people with a grand story as in religion, in which they are the heroes, so they can find meaning in their lives.
Environmental Evangelists
As humans, we need purpose. We need to feel like we are part of a bigger story. If we don’t find our meaning and purpose in life in the way God intended we will find it somewhere else. Being caretakers of “the environment” provides that role for humans where they can be environmental evangelists. Many environmental evangelists are unaware of the religion they are propagating. They sincerely believe the narrative and promote it for the benefit of mankind. And many think they are merely adhering to science, not superstition or fantasy. But what they are promoting is religion, and many of their claims are not supported by science. Apocalyptic environmentalism is a religion.
IN A RELATED POST WE PRESENT THIS RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM AND CLIMATE ACTION BY SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, A FAMOUS ENVIRONMENTALIST WHO HAS BEEN ABLE TO DIVIDE THE WORLD OF LIVING CREATURES INTO TWO PARTS AS (1) “THE NATURAL WORLD” (BEASTS AND BIRDS AND WORMS AND TREES AND SUCH) AND “THE UNNATURAL WORLD” OF THE HUMANS, WITH THE ACTIVISM INTERPRETATION THAT HUMANS ARE NOT PART OF LIFE ON EARTH BUT AN EXTERNAL AND DESTRUCTIVE FORCE THAT THREATENS THE NATURAL WORLD SUCH THAT THE WORLD NEEDS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM SUCH AS HIS, TO SAVE THE NATURAL WORLD FROM THE UNNATURAL WORLD OF HUMANS.
THE CLOSE LINK BETWEEN RELIGION AND ENVIRONMENTALISM DESCRIBED BY SEAN AND MICHAEL ABOVE IS MADE ALL THE MORE CLEAR IN THIS PRESENTATION OF BUDDHISM BY SUPREME ENVIRONMENTALIST SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH WHERE WE FIND THESE ENVIRONMENTALISM WISDOMS IN THE SAYINGS OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA:
ENVIRONMENTALISM WISDOMS IN BUDDHISM AS DESCRIBED BY SIR DAVID.
MORE ON SUPERSTITION IN RELIGION: THE CASE OF BUDDHISM
SUPERSTITION IN RELIGION
FATALISM
Fatalism refers to a particular way in which people regard the events that occur in their lives, usually expressed as a belief that an individual does not have personal control over circumstances and that their lives are determined through a divine or powerful external agency (Hazen & Ehiri, 2006). These views are at odds with the dominant themes of modern health promotion movements, and present significant challenges for health advocates who aim to avert road crashes and diminish their consequences. The limited literature on fatalism reveals that it is not a simple concept, with religion, culture, superstition, experience, education and degree of perceived control of one’s life all being implicated in accounts of fatalism. One distinction in the literature that seems promising is the distinction between empirical and theological fatalism, although there are areas of uncertainty about how well-defined the distinction between these types of fatalism is.
RELATED POST ON BAMBI: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/15/the-bambi-principle/
BOTTOM LINE: ECO WACKO ENVIRONMENTALISM IS WHAT WE NEED IN A POST MODERN WORLD WHERE THE CREDIBILITY OF TRADITIONAL RELIGONS HAS WANED. THE GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE IS PART OF THAT ENVIRONMENTALISM CREED. THE SERIOUS STATISTICAL AND METHODOLOGICL ERRORS IN CLIMATE SCIENCE THAT WE HAVE DESCRIBED IN RELATED POSTS MUST BE UNDERSTOOD AS DANGEROUS NONSENSE IN THIS CONTEXT BECAUSE NOT FOLLOWING THE CREED TO THE LETTER RISKS ARMAGEDDON IN THE FORM OF DESTRUCTION OF THE PLANET AND THE END OF MANKIND.
RELATED POST ON CLIMATE CHANGE RELIGION: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/05/27/unnatural-humans/
RELATED POST ON THE END OF THE WORLD OBSESSION: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/04/16/theend/
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October 25, 2021 at 8:47 am
The things that people do and say to give meaning to their lives can be perplexing to say the least. Science is about challenging our minds to understand what’s going on and to use that to develop new means to help us survive the always changing circumstances the weather and the annual seasons deliver. That includes finding new ways to harness the energies from the sun and of the solar system, we and all other species need to survive, like the first cyanobacteria did with photosynthesis in the early atmosphere close to 4.5 billion years ago.
Photosynthesis appears to have started with all of the world’s available water and CO2 remaining in the the atmosphere, well before the surface of the Earth had cooled enough for water and CO2 to precipitate together as dilute H2CO3 that gives rain its pH 5.6 and start filling the depressions of a volcanically hyperactive surface constantly being massaged by the gravity of the sun and of the 5th largest moon of the solar system. For all that time, outgassing of the mantle has been adding N2, H2O, and CO2 through volcanic eruptions while global cooling made H2O and CO2 fill the ocean to much higher levels than what we are seeing in modern times of glaciation.
At times that people were still thinking that the Earth was flat inside a sphere filled with the breath of the gods and with the sun, the moon and the stars going around it and the planets performing epicycles, ancient civilisations worshipped the sun and the moon with a lot more sense than the ignorant navel gazing self-gratifying climate activist and extinction rebellion protesters of modern times.
The transfer of momentum from the growing snow and ice accumulation at the poles for the last ~6,000 years since the Holocene Altithermal has been increasing the supersonic equatorial speed of the Earth’s rotation. It is causing the trillions of tonnes of CO2 released from the ocean in the tropics annually to accelerate slowly to a current rate of about 166 ppm per century that will continue to increase until declining sea levels have exposed more land in the tropics as part of the start of present ice age with a total drop of about 125 metres over the next 60,000, with the loss of solar energy collection delivering a reduction in the global mean temperatures of about 5 degrees C.
The real climate change problem will arrive in about 100,000 years when global warming over just 6,000 years according to the Milankovic cycles will cause all that to reverse and for people to migrate to higher latitudes again as many of our ancestors did and started to look very pale from the loss of sunshine but giving them a vitamin-D advantage.
October 25, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Thank you for this very in depth and sincere analysis.