Friday, January 22, 2016

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: ON KILLING THE PLANET - GREEN SECULAR RELIGION AND EXTREMISM


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN


"Killing the planet'?

Language just doesn't come more absurd than that.

Our planet is just a huge mass of stone and metal hurtling through space.

Water from passing comets over the eons has given it oceans and lakes.

It is likely that of the almost certainly millions of such planets in the universe, some, by one means or another, reach a point of no longer supporting life.

But even that may be a stretch.

The life-force is just so powerful. It was noticed about two or three weeks after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that weeds began to poke up in the cracks in the pavement.

And earth has had a number of extinctions, but it is still teeming with life.

The green extremists are just a new form of religion, and anyone who refers to "killing the planet" is a green extremist.


Please, it has never been nice or even civil to toss garbage around, but that has nothing to do with planetary survival, whatever that is.