Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing this. The more of us who have come to our senses and who will speak out about it will help others who are secretly harboring the same fears/concerns
Before I was born my Dad worked on the construction of a nuclear power plant that was never completed. This was at least partly because of the intense protest by Greenpeace at the site and all around the country at the time.
Instead of a clean contained nuclear power plant, we were left with the coal fired power plant that peppered everything within 30 miles with yellow and white ash and spewed heavy radioactive metals into the air.
They've buried 60 years worth of the fly ash on the banks of the Ohio river, making the land completely toxic and unusable for the forseable future, not to mention the water. It's a few hundred feet from a State park.
I've never forgiven Greenpeace for that, they came here, spewed their nonsense and then left. They should have had to spend their childhood breathing yellow ash and heavy metals...
Same same! That's what I thought at the end of the article. It's not that hard to appreciate both humanity as well as technological progress, they need each other. Nice article.
I tried the Humanists briefly but they seemed to be primarily an anti-religious campaign group for people who had bad experiences of religion as children, which was not what I was looking for. Maybe I was just unlucky with my local branch!
Rather than shop around for another more simpatico cult, why not just think for yourself? Of course, this requires a lot of work, reading from the most reliable sources, understanding the arguments and counter-arguments, doubting every hidden assumption, etc. But it's the only way your opinions will ever be your own.
In my humble opinion, climate change activism and secular humanism resemble cult behaviors.
The human rights and anti war movement of the hippies were abducted by Democrat politicians in the late 60's. Musicians were the draw to most demonstrations. Bob Dylan saw this happening and wrote "My Back Pages" as his resignation as a leader of a movement gone astray....spoiled by a lust for "empowerment".
I find that the nearest thing to a non-cult Philosophy/Religious vision is Pantheism.
Aside from that, your article was appealing and well taken.
Good article. Good for you that you escaped the cult.
Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing this. The more of us who have come to our senses and who will speak out about it will help others who are secretly harboring the same fears/concerns
Excellent article :)
When I hear Greenpeace I always think of this;
Before I was born my Dad worked on the construction of a nuclear power plant that was never completed. This was at least partly because of the intense protest by Greenpeace at the site and all around the country at the time.
Instead of a clean contained nuclear power plant, we were left with the coal fired power plant that peppered everything within 30 miles with yellow and white ash and spewed heavy radioactive metals into the air.
They've buried 60 years worth of the fly ash on the banks of the Ohio river, making the land completely toxic and unusable for the forseable future, not to mention the water. It's a few hundred feet from a State park.
I've never forgiven Greenpeace for that, they came here, spewed their nonsense and then left. They should have had to spend their childhood breathing yellow ash and heavy metals...
Same same! That's what I thought at the end of the article. It's not that hard to appreciate both humanity as well as technological progress, they need each other. Nice article.
Difficult to read, I was there, but then asked for the science and the data.
I tried the Humanists briefly but they seemed to be primarily an anti-religious campaign group for people who had bad experiences of religion as children, which was not what I was looking for. Maybe I was just unlucky with my local branch!
Rather than shop around for another more simpatico cult, why not just think for yourself? Of course, this requires a lot of work, reading from the most reliable sources, understanding the arguments and counter-arguments, doubting every hidden assumption, etc. But it's the only way your opinions will ever be your own.
In my humble opinion, climate change activism and secular humanism resemble cult behaviors.
The human rights and anti war movement of the hippies were abducted by Democrat politicians in the late 60's. Musicians were the draw to most demonstrations. Bob Dylan saw this happening and wrote "My Back Pages" as his resignation as a leader of a movement gone astray....spoiled by a lust for "empowerment".
I find that the nearest thing to a non-cult Philosophy/Religious vision is Pantheism.
Aside from that, your article was appealing and well taken.