Jim Lovelock’s ‘The Revenge of Gaia’

The humanist concept off sustainable development and the Christian concept of stewardship are flawed by unconscious hubris. We have neither the knowledge nor the capacity to achieve them. We are no more qualified to be the stewards or developers of the Earth than are goats to be gardeners.  

This weeks Green Thought comes from Jim Lovelock’s ‘The Revenge of Gaia’ (Published 2006).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lovelock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

 

Sigmund Freud

“Civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means of power and coercion.”

Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis. 1856-1939)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud

Captain Paul Watson

I think the wholesale destruction of our oceans and forests and the incredible assault on bio-diversity is terrorism of the highest order - terrorism that is accepted by anthropocentric culture as normal.

Captain Paul Watson in the article ‘Terrorism is as Terrorism Does’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Paul_Watson

 

http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/watson2.htm

 

Otto Ulrich - The Development Dictionary

The need to renounce the use of atomic energy, the chlorine industry, most aspects of synthesizing chemistry, reliance on the automobile, and industrialised and chemicalised agriculture has become self-evident to ecologically conscious people.

 

This weeks green thought comes from Otto Ulrich on Technology  in The Development Dictionary (1992), edited by Wolfgang Sachs.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sachs

Tim Jackson - Prosperity without Growth

… the market was not undone (in the 2008 crisis) by isolated practices carried out by rogue individuals … The market was undone by growth itself.

 

Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, Earthscan, 2009

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Jackson_%28economist%29

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Commission

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_Without_Growth

 

Ozzie Zehners - Green Illusions : The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

….journalist(s) go so far to claim that alternative-energy production is the only option, insisting that producing greenhouse-gas emissions ”requires” that we immediately deploy “other sources of energy, such as windmills and nuclear plants”.
Hogwash.
…….these technologies generate greenhouse-gas, instigate negative side effects of their own, encounter limitations, and most problematically, act to further stimulate overall power demand.

 

This weeks green thought also comes from Ozzie Zehners’ 2012  green-myth shattering book Green Illusions :  The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism.

 

 

http://ozziezehner.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/ozzie-zehner-responds-to-his-critics

Ozzie Zehners - Green Illusions : The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism

Upon closer inspection, the benefits of green automobiles start to appear synonymous with the benefits of smoking low-tar cigarettes. Both seem healthy only when compared to something framed as being worse…….It isn’t acceptable for doctors to promote low-tar cigarettes. Should environmentalists promote alternatively fuelled automobiles ?

 

This weeks green thought comes from Ozzie Zehners’ 2012  green-myth

shattering book Green Illusions :  The Dirty Secrets of Green Energy and the Future of Environmentalism.     

 

http://ozziezehner.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/ozzie-zehner-responds-to-his-critics