QUESTION:

What makes Madagascar a biodiversity hotspot?

MY ANSWER:

Madagascar is truly a biodiversity hotspot and not only that but a hotspot for poverty, illiteracy, disease, and a deprived and primitive lifestyle. No matter how strong your eco wacko religion, there is something grossly sinful in promoting these primitive conditions as some kind of ideal. Environmentalism has parted ways with reason and it has morphed into a religion of some kind.

THIS IS THE KIND OF LIFESTYLE IT NEEDS TO KEEP ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAPPY WITH THE BIODIVERSITY THAT THEY LOVE.

LINK TO RELATED POST ON THE RELIGION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM: https://tambonthongchai.com/2022/02/01/the-environmentalism-religion/

WHAT MICHAEL CRICHTON SAID

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it’s a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. There’s an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there’s a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe. Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday—these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don’t want to talk anybody out of them, as I don’t want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don’t want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can’t talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith. And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly, facts aren’t necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are about belief and that is because environmentalism is a belief system. It’s about whether you are going to be a sinner, or be saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them. This is no exaggeration. It is in reality what we are dealing with. The reality is that we know a lot more about the world than we did forty or fifty years ago. And what we know now is not so supportive of certain core environmental myths. And yet, the myths don’t die. They can’t die. They are the tenets of a religious belief system.