I was reading about former U.N. ambassador John Bolton’s attempt to push the idea that Al Gore is in the minority when it comes to a position on global warming — stunning enough chutzpah in itself — when I came across these paragraphs in the post:
Bolton is part of the fringe, discredited global warming denial community that claims there is still a debate on the causes of global warming. Just last month, he told the New York Times:
I don’t think the world has a correct temperature. It goes up and it goes down.
In 2005, he “recommended scrapping” over 400 passages from a 38-page U.S. draft prepared for a U.N. climate change summit, even requesting that “respect for nature” be cut from the document.
Now, that pretty much says it all. I can’t even imagine a contemporary human being on the planet Earth thinking there’s something wrong, evil, or political about “respect for nature.” WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO RESPECT, for heaven’s sake? If you can think like that, you’re a very sick individual and possibly not even really human. I’ve long thought that homo sapiens were evolving along two distinct lines, one of which is doomed to extinction. Honestly now, is there any other answer but that some of us are too out of touch with our own consciousness to survive?
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In the hopes of initiating a little give and take on this subject, I’ll lay my cards on the table. Nature isn’t something we should worship: it is what happens to be the case. It is supremely neutral. It’s the convergence of all possibilities into the irreducible thing that is. There’s no point in being “against it” or “for it”. It’s bigger than any of us. It’ll be here long after the hundredth generation which follows us is gone. It’s not something I feel much affection for. Curiosity and respect, yes, but not love. I love people, I’m just curious about kingfishers and glaciers. I respect the might of nature and relish its beauties, even if those beauties weren’t intended for us and are just a by-product of amoral forces we can’t comprehend. Don’t ask me to love anything as mechanistic as that. Only humans can step beyond mechanical determinism and act with nobility, wit and grace. Nature’s just a blind and relentless force. We are conscious, we are sentient, capable of evil and capable of good. Nature’s a predator pure and simple… So I’ll give one cheer for nature, two cheers for the ordinary run of human beings, and three cheers for the saints and heroes in our midst. –Thus endeth another hellish homily.