Self Interested Protagonists Rule Environmentalism
Dogma . . . Zealotry, Religion, Extremism in Politics and even in Science can and do become so polarized that common ground with compromise is impossible to find. This is not anything new. Throughout human history there have always been divergent views. Opposing views and their protagonists have even been slaughtered as whole groups because they stand apart from the preeminent consensus views. You would think that today in the 21st century we could be better than that. Sad to say . . . it is not . . . yet . . . When the walls came down with the Soviet Union, thanks to détente. When trade began with China, thanks to Global Trade. When equal rights for all became enshrined broadly in constitutions all over the world, détente appeared to be our new world order. Even Science had become Global with new research developed and shared almost instantly thanks to the internet. Yet today, polarization is raising its ugly head once again, Globally. Driving new wedges between opposing views all over the world. Tensions between opposing views seem to be rising even more today . . . thanks to the internet. It gives voice to extreme views where whole groups share . . . absent the voice of reason or opposition or common sense. Politics, ‘Sketchy’ Science, and the Media have become strange bedfellows. Questionable, yet simple Scientific Research gets ‘selected’ and is broadly distributed in the media. The findings become common knowledge and widely held by society at large. Then along come the politicians carrying the voice of ‘reason’ shared by the public at large. Programs are introduced, laws are passed, and change comes. 1