PrintMay 9, 2006
Children of Lightning or Children of Terror?
Mankind is ingenious at tapping the energy bounty provided by nature. From the first fire, to windmills, to water wheels, to today's electric generating plants we have progressed from superstitious awe and deification of nature to harnessing it to our every need.
Today however we have several movements that question and deny the need for more energy, and we have dangerous tyrants who oppose our advance at every opportunity. These forces all sprang from the romantic era, two driven by an idealized view of nature, and one from a religio—racist view —— and they all ally when it's convenient.
There are really only three roadblocks to a great future for us and future generations:
The first consists of nihilistic neo—romantics who would prefer that the rest of humanity didn't exist at all. Earth—firsters, Greenpeace, Greens, the radical environmentalists, the zero—population groups, all have the same wellspring: that idealized, romantic view of nature and...(Read Full Article)
