I have warned before that the anti-humanism of Deep Ecology is seeping into the messages of A-List Hollywood films. In previous posts and articles, I pointed to two recent major movies, the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still —in which an alien comes to earth to kill all humans, literally . . . . Continue Reading »
What can only be called a fundamentalist wing has developed within the global warming movement. One attribute of fundamentalism is a focus—and for some, an hysterical obsession—with end-of-the-world fear mongering, as in the warning just issued by “Nobel . . . . Continue Reading »
Environmentalism is changing. It once was a distinctly humanistic movement, pushing conservation as a way of ensuring prosperity to our posterity, cleanup of pollution, protecting of habitats and endangered species, etc.—all certainly human duties arising from human exceptionalism. . . . . Continue Reading »
Environmentalism is mutating from a movement organized around conserving resources, maintaining proper standards of environmental cleanliness, and protecting endangered species, as it promotes human prosperity, into a quasi-earth religion that seeks to “save the planet”—from us. . . . . Continue Reading »
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