Monday, May 11, 2015

Old-time religion …

… The Theology of Climate Change — Taki's Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



The paragraph I have quoted was truly representative of the intellectual quality and honesty of what followed. ‘Climate change,’ say the authors, ‘is the largest global health threat of the 21st century and, despite limited empirical evidence, it is expected directly and indirectly to harm communities’ psychosocial well-being.’ This is not so much science as it is religion, in which the god worshipped is the bringer-about of future catastrophe, a kind of Kali, whose destructiveness must be appeased by word, puja and sacrifice.

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