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Bill McKibben: Extravagant Emotional Excess
12-17-2009, 08:37 PM
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Bill McKibben: Extravagant Emotional Excess
There is No Frakking "Scientific Consensus" on Global Warming

Dec 15, 2009

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A few weeks ago I read Bill McKibben's 1989 book, The End of Nature. It's considered the first mainstream book on global warming and is, one presumes, part of the reason McKibben is a revered environmental guru.

I discuss that book in this blog post (see the section appearing in navy-colored text, midway through). What surprised me, as a newcomer to McKibben's work, is how utterly emotional his arguments are. Yes, he cites scientists and their research, but the book is first and foremost a philosophical/spiritual/highly emotive piece of writing. As I observed in my earlier post:

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Wow an emotional wimpy mess.
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

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