The Irony of Facts Meets Academic Posturing

SEE HERE "Of course we've got to be green," is the kind of mantra one finds in all sorts of liberal venues these days. Of course exactly what "green" means is usually up for grabs. Green means "recycling" regardless of whether recycling makes any economic or even environmental sense at all. "We're doing it for the planet." I get a charge out of this one. The only conscience the planet has is ours and you have all sorts of nut jobs talking about Gaia which is a groundless speculation that the earth ecological system is a unity with the teleological principle of optimizing life on earth.

"Hello!" and this from folks that reject just about any other teleological principle. The role of man on the earth is one of stewardship which is intelligent management of the earth's resources. The management of these resources should be a subject for discussion, but it should be a discussion grounded in facts and analysis, not mythologies invented by people who believe things like Gaia. Gaia is a kind of return to paganism and spiritism in the guise of popular science. I have an embarrassing moment on a Bill Moyers' video where he asks Joseph Campbell about the "Gaia principle." A journalist and a mythologist chatting about a pseudoscientific idea is priceless.