Man-worsened climate change, what solution?
December 21st 2009 19:21
Richard Dawkins
We desperately need this first, if we are to have any chance of stopping man-worsened climate change.
Two shows on ABC last night (Monday 21 Dec 09) gave a glimpse of the depths of mankind's ignorance, which we need to change first if the world is ever to be freed from potentially catastrophic climate change.
The first was the “Elders With Andrew Denton” interview of 67yo revolutionary biologist Oxford University-based atheist writer, Richard Dawkins. In revealing man's ignorance, it showed less of Dawkins and more of Christianity-professing Denton, who persisted with inane personal questions instead of investigating what viewers are really concerned about - whether Christianity or Darwinist thinking presents the best hope for overcoming the man-worsened world condition.
Myself, I'm a religious skeptic based on the evidence that Christ does not live in religious church organizations. But I'm skeptical of moralizing atheist writers too.
In terms of powerful humility, the interview demonstrated Dawkins as having more of the person Christ in him than Denton, whose Ocker tendency to play the man instead of the ball bordered on the ridiculous, with his last question asking about Dawkin's star sign!
The second ABC show evidencing our underlying ignorance was "Lilies" .
The series is about three working class sisters aged late teens or early 20s, living in a Catholic family post-World War I in Liverpool (UK), with a father and brother but no mother. Last night’s storyline demonstrated the ignorance of the upper class seeking to employ eugenic solutions coming close to euthanasia, to address perceived over-breeding of the ignorant working class.
I'm no feminist. I'm a 63yo man whose younger-life ignorance was extreme even criminal selfishness, using intellect and religion to manipulate others including family members. The writers of "Lilies" further opened these old eyes to the tragic consequences for mankind, myself included, in persisting to manipulate for self's sake.
Taken together, the night's ABC viewing spoke volumes about the rarely heard real condition lurking behind damaging popular behavior.
Could this be the food for thought we need more of, if we are to change our condition starting with each one dealing with himself?
We desperately need this first, if we are to have any chance of stopping man-worsened climate change.
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