Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

“The idea that we’re a cancer on the planet—well, what do you do with cancer? You eradicate it. I’ve heard environmentally sensitive types say that, and it’s horrifying. They’re completely blind to what they’re saying. If they weren’t blind to it, they’d be traumatized by it.”

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1388506611451314176

“Is this de­sire to de­stroy a sign of some twisted spir­i­tual long­ing?”

“I think so,” said Jordan Peterson. “The peo­ple who car­i­ca­ture West­ern so­ci­ety as a pa­tri­archy, and then de­scribe it as evil, they’re pos­sessed by a re­li­gious idea.”

I agree:

“The trouble with the new environmental religion is that it has become increasingly apocalyptic, destructive, and self-defeating. It leads its adherents to demonize their opponents, often hypocritically.”

“It drives them to seek to restrict power and prosperity at home and abroad. And it spreads anxiety and depression without meeting the deeper psychological, existential, and spiritual needs its ostensibly secular devotees seek.”

wsj.com/articles/apoca…

“Mr. Shellenberger wants to woo them to an alternative faith that he calls environmental humanism, which is committed to the “transcendent moral purpose of universal human flourishing and environmental progress.”

wsj.com/articles/apoca…

I was honored yesterday to be followed by Professor Peterson

Maybe he read Apocalypse Never?

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