My name in Hebrew means "Son of man". If you flip open to Ezekiel 2.1, you will find my name being called out by G-d to the prophet. When I first found out that was my name, it was as though G-d was talking directly to me. I listened. Now, I am an ordinary radical trying to live humbly, simply, faithfully, and subversively. This means I want to make a mess of the mess pride, extravagance, disobedience, and the status quo have made. These are my messes.
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Showing posts with label Environmentalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environmentalism. Show all posts
14 March 2010
The Issue of Atheism
First, I want to humbly say I have not solved the problem. I only want to make this observation. From where to modern atheists derive morality? If humanity is involved in evolution and a part of evolution is the rise and fall of species, the demise of homo sapiens sapiens at the hands of our own environmental destruction could be perceived as an evolutionary dead end. We evolved the ability to kill ourselves, and we did (or we are). If our species dies because of this, there is nothing wrong with that. We, technically speaking, should die. Still, many evolutionary biologists believe, morally, the destruction of the environment is bad. Why? Where did they get the notion that peoples should decide whether or not they fatally destroy themselves if their self-destruction is evolved? I just want to know. Is our belief to protect ourselves from ourselves a simple survival strategy? If so, why would we evolve the capability to crush ourselves in the first place? I have many questions that no atheists have answered yet. Peace!
13 March 2010
The Problem With the Modern Environmental Movement and Its Brief Moral Implications
The main concept we need to keep in mind when talking about environmentalism is that the planet will survive us, but we might not survive the planet. The problem, then, is not terracide but suicide or, at the least, homicide. No matter how much "damage" we do to the earth, we will only be able to relocate resources and alter geography. What we can do by causing damage is bring about, directly or indirectly, the deaths of thousands, millions, or even billions of people. The modern, essentially pagan, environmental movement, which demands the earth be saved for the earth's sake, puts reverence into nature at the expense of humanity. Their critique, therefore, falls on deaf ears as a common person will never act radically and dangerously to protect plants and animals, but we can surely expect them to take to action in order to protect themselves and others. Peace!
-ben adam
-ben adam
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