The Blackberry Walk

From what friends who've read Baka Environmentalists have said, the point I was trying to get across doesn't shine through - here's my second attempt. Environmentalism as an ideology has adhered on to every gear of the university machine, and my subject of study, chemistry, is understandably no exception. Last year, for instance, we were taught topics like ozone depletion and the green house gas effect - topics which have been thrust upon us since the earliest years of secondary school. The scientific eschatology which forms the heart of the environmentalist project is drilled into us year by year, given that it's one of the lynch pins holding together the mythology of modern times. Certainly, Revelations was taught with as much vigour in Puritan schools of yonder year. Today I shan't disprove the scientific validity of environmentalism, since I'm sure much of the science is sound; what irks me instead, is the attitude environmentalists hold, and the nasty hubris which lies latent in its nucleus. Nature is not beholden to man. Nature is all-powerful; it's a force far greater than our singular species which arose out of it. So large is nature, that outside of moon landings, mankind has never been outside of it; we've been forever a part of it, within mother natures clutches. We may make buildings which tickle the heavens, mines which tunnel into nature's belly, and flatten jungles into soy fields, but is nature itself affected? Has mother nature cried once because of the great assault on her divine body? The tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods blamed upon the ever-present devil climate change are not manifestations of sadness since we haven't treat mother nature kindly - they are vicious counter-attacks against man. In man's ever-growing dissociation from nature and retreat into society, mother nature hasn't become old and weary and nor is mankind grown up enough to take care if their mother. Mother nature is angry at the Babel man has erected in the name of science, and would like to tear it down. Mother nature is not to be protected; no, mother nature must be feared. Ancients prayed to goddesses of fertility, praying on the right hand out of love for the bountiful crops they can bring, and on the left hand out of fear that, should they not be loyal, their privilege be rescinded. Environmentalists only see this right hand, forgetting the immense pain and suffering nature causes man also, whether through floods, earthquakes, or droughts. Mankind doesn't want to save the Earth; no, mankind wants to save themselves. And the quicker this fantasy of the environmentalist to their own intentions is shattered, the quicker something will be done about the issues the environmentalists preach. Many are turned off by moral do-goodery of 'saving the planet' - as if you, or any organisation of humans, were strong enough to actually save the planet notwithstanding the fact that it is the planet which has been attacking us, mankind, with abnormal weather conditions. No, mankind is saving themselves, just as it always has. But this message doesn't resonate anymore - to act in your own interest would be seen as selfish. This misunderstanding of selfishness permeates all of our culture today, and can be seen most clearly in the ever-more common trend of indecisiveness. No one wants to suggest somewhere to go, what to do, or what to eat, out of a fear of imposing their own will on others - on the surface it's selfless, since you're letting the other decide, yet at its core it's selfish, since you're expecting the other party to make all the decisions for you. In a similar vein, the environmentalist doesn't want to exert power towards their own interest, namely the intention for man to fix the environment for the sake of mankind. Instead of imposing their own will on the environment, they'll spin a yarn of fiction, creating a myth of charity and benevolence, wherein they're acting out of purely selfless goals. But whether aware of it or not, deep down, we all want power to make the world better for ourselves; some are just more honest about it than others. And many environmentalists are unaware of it, operating under the guise of 'saving the planet' to abate the deeply Protestant guilt present in their bosom. They can't fight for their kith and kin, since mankind is the problem, the contagion, causing the environmental dilemmas we experience. The arguments of environmentalists are deeply anti-natal, anti-human, and anti-intuitive since they aren't fighting for the sake of mankind, like every true hero would.