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| Michael Marshall |
The source of their specific example of denial --- the ultimate DENIAL --- "the father of all denial" , is denying that we humans are totally dependent on other life for our continuing survival.
This highly popular, highly respectable, form of DENIALISM is found everywhere.
For but one example --- it is found among the leading elements of our new economy --- the executives of the biggest firms of the internet.
Top executives from corporations like Google, Amazon, Microsoft are leading the non-government charge into space --- and away from all the Earth's messy problems.
The latest delusion is that we can continue to consume (but not recycle) the world's limited surface supplies of minerals, because a new source will open up when we mine asteroids.
Success will look like all those pre-war sci fi covers, with all of us living inside plastic domes, on the barren poisoned surface of some planet ( maybe even our own) and surviving by converting minerals into food and air and water and all else a civilization needs.
In fact, we here on Earth lack no resources - not even energy - if we learn to recycle what we already have.
Sorry, I meant we lack no natural resources , because of course we lack lots of common sense.
Particularly among the ranks of science, among the people we should be trusting to expose quasi-scientific nonsense.
Oh, and they do -- if the object of their public scorn is somebody powerless touting non-science oriented nonsense -- ie someone, above all, who could not be seen as a fellow scientist.
But they are very reluctant to lower the tone of science debate by
publicly taking on science-oriented nonsense.
It is almost as bizarre as if a fact-finding group of well-respected
Jewish scientists had visited Doctor Mengele at Auschwitz in 1943 and now had to release a public report, but were torn between being horrified and yet reluctant to publicly scorn a fellow scientist in public.
Bigger than the fate of any one ethnic group are now at stake --- the 'DENIERS of LIMITS' are threatening the fate of all the human race --- yet they fail to face public criticism from the those scientists who claim that they believe humanity must learn to live within limits.
This is where I feel this blog must come in.
I will try not to attack the DENIERS too much - they are the broad side of the barn on this issue.
Instead I will focus on "outing" those scientists who privately scorn the DENIERS, but are reluctant to say so clearly in public.....
