Summary
The way the logic of it works out, the declinist wins no matter what happens. We either adopt more energy-efficient, low-impact, "human-scale" lifestyles, or the atmosphere will heat up, the economy will collapse and we'll be forcibly thrown back into a subsistence economy. Fate, as the great Canadian pessimist George Grant once wrote, leads the willing and drives the unwilling, and we're headed for a 12th-century economy whether we like it or not. It's a future that the high priest of declinism, James Howard Kunstler (author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency), can hardly wait for. While he spent his entire career fighting a losing intellectual battle against the car culture of suburbia, global warming has given him renewed faith in the ability of humanity to destroy itself through consumption. As he wrote recently, "let the gloating begin."
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Coining a New Theology
One of the most disturbing aspects of the growing concern over climate change is the giddy delight with which some members of the left await the coming global catastrophe. Of course they don't admit to being delighted. Instead, they ...
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