The Irrational Dogma Of Environmentalism
by Philip Atkinson

Its Inspiration
The majority of citizens are now selfish, which means they have only the morality of convenience, which makes them deluded: they cannot think clearly but are ruled by fear and fancy. So they are:
1.Contemptuous of the familiar and despise their urban surroundings and all associated with it —their community.
2.Revere the unusual or rare which for most of them is the flora and fauna not seen close to their cities.
3.Susceptible to irrational fears, which makes them anxious about:
  • The purity of their food, drink and air, making them obsessed with fears of pollution and toxic waste.
  • Change, such as the introduction of mobile phones, new drugs, genetic engineering, nuclear power.
  • The risk of supplies running out, which is why they insist upon zero population growth and allowing only self-sustaining industries.
  • 4.Feel a sense of impending doom, as the thing they most cherish —themselves—must eventually perish, so they are particularly sensitive to any notion of global catastrophe that will doom everybody.

    Universal Dogma of Environmentalists
    The result of these attitudes, which are endemic throughout the towns and cities of Western Civilization, is:
    1.A reverence for nature (flora and fauna away from cities) with its imagined sacred and delicate balance essential for global life.
  • Pretending that people are not part of nature and ignoring Charles Darwin's work 'The Origin Of Species', which revealed that nature is a continual series of accidents that randomly destroy and create species: and that humanity only appeared because countless previous species were exterminated.
  • Ignoring that there is no balance in the natural world, only chaos. And unless humanity controls nature it will remain dependent upon blind chance for its well-being.
  • 2.Contempt for Western Civilization that is expressed by a ruthless (without any moral restraint) opposition to anything and everything that excites their irrational fears, and this includes:
  • Any expansion of the community in size —it encroaches upon nature.
  • Any expansion of population— it uses up more finite resources.
  • Any change (improvement) in technology regardless of its potential (including the stifling of nuclear power, genetic modification, high dose radiation for food preservation).
  • The use of substances new or existing, such as insecticides, drugs, etc. (this includes DDT, Thalidomide, Devron, Asbestos)
  • —all to avoid the possible threat of global catastrophe—impending doom.
    3.Being Paranoid: that is frightened of imaginary dangers, while being blind to real threats such as social decay and human obsolescence.

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