janos : Practical philosopher

Re: Alternative Views

janos said Oct 21, 2008, 5:56 PM:

 

Sara,
You are raising some important Questions.

Global warming is the big red herring our our century. When an issue is embraced by the establishment and its mouthpiece, the popular media, it is indeed “time to take another look”.

What is not realised in sufficient detail by the climate skeptics is that “it's the economy, stupid”.
It is not global warming that is threatening the earth's ability to support us, but the rapacious economic system this primitive version of capitalism is maintaining.

The question of Big Bang is another issue — a modern genesis story for the modern mind, just as the Genesis account of creation was a story adequate for the peoples of those bygone times.

In my opinion, it would be a mistake and diversion to attach the same kind of harmfulness to the Big Bang deception as the one perpetrated by the climate change lobby. This is because I do not think that the big bang view has the direct impact of diminishing political and economic liberty.

Nevertheless, the video is very interesting.