{"id":4370,"date":"2018-08-30T19:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:19:49","slug":"cultural-amnesia-and-losing-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/cultural-amnesia-and-losing-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Amnesia and Losing Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/journalpulp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-30-at-7.38.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"599\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11116\" \/><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p>On August 1st, <i>The New York Times<\/i> published a thirty-one-thousand-word propaganda piece called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/08\/01\/magazine\/climate-change-losing-earth.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=magazine&#038;region=stream&#038;module=stream_unit&#038;version=latest&#038;contentPlacement=1&#038;pgtype=sectionfront#main\">Losing Earth<\/a>,&#8221; which in thirty-one-thousand words &#8212; almost the length of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982397984\">my latest book<\/a> &#8212; did not manage to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sWyiO2_nfqA\">nuclear energy<\/a> except once in passing. They also somehow managed to ignore the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dgRu4aL0w5M\">sheer amount of fossil fuels<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-nl5C9z-o8\">rare-earth minerals<\/a> &#8212; in short, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8ilRfqWDjA\">industry<\/a> &#8212; required to create and maintain &#8220;renewables.&#8221; They did, however, unwittingly &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/08\/01\/new-york-times-thinks-we-have-lost-the-earth-goes-full-nutso-on-exxonknew\/\">deal a horrible blow to the fringe activists<\/a>&#8221; (unquote) who don&#8217;t understand production or even the <a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/i-pencil-by-leonard-read\/\">most basic economics<\/a>, and this blow has left activists everywhere scurrying to their soapboxes. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The idea that energy companies &#8216;knew everything there was to know about climate change,&#8217; as Bill McKibben likes to say, and that the rest of us didn\u2019t know about it until James Hansen testified before Congress in 1988, &#8216;is one of the worst examples we have of the cultural amnesia of this country and especially around this issue,&#8217; Nathaniel Rich [the author of the New York Times article] told NewsHour.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, who (like me) long ago left the movement because of an utter and absolute disenchantment with its <a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/angry-dirty-water-the-uncompahgre-river\/\">innumerable, unignorable lies<\/a> &#8212; i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/plastic-strawmen-and-noble-cause-corruption\/\">Noble Cause Corruption<\/a> &#8212; as well as its patently <a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/the-party-of-science-the-1-percent-and-why-laissez-faire-will-always-triumph\/\">propagandistic and unscientific methodology<\/a>, recently wrote a must-read article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/08\/03\/twelve-invisible-eco-catastrophes-and-threats-of-doom-that-are-actually-fake\/\">Twelve Invisible Eco-Catastrophes and Threats of Doom That are Actually Fake.<\/a> Among them:<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Coral reefs around the world are dying<\/strong><\/i> and <i><strong>Ocean \u201cAcidification\u201d will kill all the coral reefs and shellfish in the world<\/strong><\/i>, and, of course, <i><strong>here is a \u201csea of plastic\u201d the size of Texas in the North Pacific Gyre north of Hawaii.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>For this last one, he posted this proven fake photo &#8212; laughably fake &#8212; which, however, eco-warriors and social justice warriors the wide world over are still posting to weariness, without, of course, daring to think for themselves: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/journalpulp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-30-at-7.13.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"493\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11111\" \/><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 1st, The New York Times published a thirty-one-thousand-word propaganda piece called &#8220;Losing Earth,&#8221; which in thirty-one-thousand words &#8212; almost the length of my latest book &#8212; did not manage to mention nuclear energy except once in passing. They also somehow managed to ignore the sheer amount of fossil fuels and rare-earth minerals &#8212; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/cultural-amnesia-and-losing-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cultural Amnesia and Losing Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}