A Quick Misanthropy Quiz
Before reading the rest of this post, let’s try a little experiment. Here are a set of quotations…your job is to decide who said it, a real-life scientist or Agent Smith from the Matrix trilogy (see...
View ArticleHow Green Were the Nazis?
A new review on H-German by John Alexander Williams of Bradley University examines the edited collection of essays, How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich (Athens,...
View ArticleDo You See More than Just a ‘Carbon Footprint’?
Call it something like an anthropological Rorschach test. What do you see when you look at the picture above? Do you see more than just a ‘carbon footprint’?It’s a fair question to ask, I think, of...
View Article2006 in Review, 2nd Quarter
Our series on the year in review continues with the second quarter:April“Surprise! Evangelical Politics Isn’t Univocal,” Jordan J. BallorSo from issues like immigration to global warming, the press is...
View ArticleGlobal Warming and Population Control
From the “we had to destroy the village to save it” department, check out this item from the Huffington Post by Dave Johnson, “A Global Warming Suggestion: Fewer Babies.”It’s pretty indefatigable...
View ArticleMore Matrix Anthropology
Oliver “Buzz” Thomas: “We’re like cancer. Unable to pace ourselves, we are greedily consuming our host organism (i.e. planet Earth) and getting dangerously close to killing ourselves in the process....
View ArticleA Conundrum for Misanthropes
I wonder if the same folks who think the earth has too many human beings (and wish for some sort of plague to rid the earth of many, if not all, of its human inhabitants) are celebrating the...
View ArticleThe Science of Stewardship
In this week’s Acton Commentary I examine some of the issues surrounding concern for our planet’s growing human population. In “The Science of Stewardship: Sin, Sustainability, and GM Foods,” I argue...
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