Climate Change – Science or Theology?

 

Dear All:

Last November I asked Bill Rees, a pioneer in the field of environmental economics and ecology, if climate change had killed the environmental movement. He responded “. . . climate change is our eco focus. And I guess I would argue that this very simplistic, very simple, very singular focus… is a distraction from the real problem, which is something called human ecological overshoot.”

I’ve wanted to explore that question further and separate fact from fantasy, so I invited friends to a discussion titled, “Climate Change – Science or Theology”.

My guest Michael Axelrod, a retired scientist who worked at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, believes that in pushing the climate change narrative, science has suffered. “I would say, we are in worse condition now in the science enterprise than the Soviet Union was. This because the corruption and politicization extend the scope which is much wider. There’s hardly an area that’s not affected by this. Let’s take one thing that’s very neutral, okay – Mathematics. Now, mathematics has become politicized!”

Another guest, KMO, aptly stated, “Concentrations of atmospheric carbon as measured in parts per million is so disconnected from the lived experience of any mammal that any emotionally crippling obsession with the topic is a symptom of a nature deficit disorder. That said, the climate doomers holistic consciousness may have supplied them with the very correct intuition that they are confronted by something impersonal, unstoppable, and all consuming. Their initial intuition was correct, but they went astray when they accepted someone else’s ready-made articulation of that intuition.”

There was a time when the environmental movement focused on tangible goals – clean-up rivers, lakes, oceans and the air; preserve open spaces and get rid of hazardous chemicals. To these very real problems, the climate change narrative has created an abstraction that is easy to game.

“In This Together How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists Are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More”, the authors  claim , “the right and left are being artificially divided because it is profitable for the media and political industries. The fear and hate they are generating is extreme. We feed into it, when we focus on fear, and drive hatred of our adversaries. . .”

In closing, I agree with Tucker Max who said, “one of the great travesties I think of the last 30 years is that the conservation movement and the environmental movement weren’t one and the same.” Sadly, our fixation on human driven climate change is neither improving the environment nor our relationship to it.

In solidarity,

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 Homestead Earth? 
This short clip from an interview with author and unlikely homesteader, Tucker Max grabs you with its authenticity and conviction – the “travesty of the past 30 years” is that the environmental and conservationism movement were not one.

Having just celebrated Earth Day it seemed appropriate to interview Brian Czech, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Steady State Economics (CASSE.) A steady state economy entails a stabilized population, as well as, per capita consumption and minimizing waste and other externalities. Pursuing this type of economy will not only positively impact the environment it will benefit our quality of life. Tune into our conversation in which we covered a lot of bases and took aim at several sacred cows on both sides of the political divide.

In many respects climate change has assumed the status of a world religion replete with zealous adherents and detractors. And it raises the question, is it science or is it theology? To answer, Michael Axelrod and KMO, who come from very diverse backgrounds, examine the issue from a truly unique perspective. Buckle up prepare to nerd out on a wild ride through science and philosophy. Buckle up and prepare to nerd out on a wild ride through science and philosophy.

Last November we interviewed Bill Rees, an ecological economist and luminary in today’s ecological movement. Bill presents a robust and data driven narrative that should be the basis of environmental, trade, energy and manufacturing policy in the 21st century. Few sacred cows from both sides of the climate change debate, came away unscathed.

Watch and find the answers to questions such as, was Thomas Malthus right and did the Climate Change narrative kill the ecological movement?

 

 

 

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