What drives anti-vaxxers, besides their unfounded warnings about autism, is the same principle that motivates the non-GMO crowd: we need to keep our technological hands off the supposedly divine order of nature, even if elements of that divine order, like viruses, are killing us.
Most people would regard protecting the smallpox virus as a crackpot idea, but the broader notions of deep ecology have made major headway in mainstream thought, especially through the advocacy of influential Greens such as Bill McKibben and David Graber, who have sounded the alarm for years on global warming, the depredations of fossil fuels, and the evils of human technology.
With climate change destined to be a major policy issue for years to come, along with related issues concerning human interaction with the natural world, it's worth understanding what the vision of deep ecology entails-and what its practical consequences would be.
According to deep ecologists Bill Devall and George Sessions, authors of the 1985 book Deep Ecology, self-realization is "In keeping with the spiritual traditions of many of the world's religions," but the self of which they speak is quite different from the modern Western version-one based in a notion of individual liberty and self-fulfillment.
Bacon plus Hobbes gives us the "Modern Western self." The purpose of life, in this view, is material acquisition, secured by the modern state, and the means of that acquisition is the technological conquest of nature.
Modern physics sees the world as a vast storehouse of power, to be used for the useful ordering of things for the sake of even more useful ordering-mastery of nature for the sake of mastering it.
God created humans, too, of course, but we're the only part of divine creation made in God's image, and so are not a coequal with the rest of nature.
https://www.city-journal.org/climate-change-madness
Most people would regard protecting the smallpox virus as a crackpot idea, but the broader notions of deep ecology have made major headway in mainstream thought, especially through the advocacy of influential Greens such as Bill McKibben and David Graber, who have sounded the alarm for years on global warming, the depredations of fossil fuels, and the evils of human technology.
With climate change destined to be a major policy issue for years to come, along with related issues concerning human interaction with the natural world, it's worth understanding what the vision of deep ecology entails-and what its practical consequences would be.
According to deep ecologists Bill Devall and George Sessions, authors of the 1985 book Deep Ecology, self-realization is "In keeping with the spiritual traditions of many of the world's religions," but the self of which they speak is quite different from the modern Western version-one based in a notion of individual liberty and self-fulfillment.
Bacon plus Hobbes gives us the "Modern Western self." The purpose of life, in this view, is material acquisition, secured by the modern state, and the means of that acquisition is the technological conquest of nature.
Modern physics sees the world as a vast storehouse of power, to be used for the useful ordering of things for the sake of even more useful ordering-mastery of nature for the sake of mastering it.
God created humans, too, of course, but we're the only part of divine creation made in God's image, and so are not a coequal with the rest of nature.
https://www.city-journal.org/climate-change-madness
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