Darwin Awards for Darwin-esque deniers
Article published: Sunday, January 27th 2008
There’s a very addictive website called “the Darwin Awards.”
Darwin Awards are given to “honour people who ensure the long-term survival of the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion.”
So, you’ve got your people who play chicken with a train, your people who climb out on a branch and start sawing between them and the trunk, and… well, you get the picture. Or you will if you go to www.darwinawards.com
So, where am I going with this?
Well, if I could, I’d nominate this “sapient” (ha-ha) species for a Darwin Award. Not for our usage of fossil fuels over the last two hundred years. I mean, until very recently, How Were We To Know? No, I’d give the award for our behaviour since, ooh, about 1988. And especially recently. Building more airport capacity, and planning to expand biofuels are such stunningly stupid ideas that… well… when we remove the human race from gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion, we’re gonna take down a whole lotta other species.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/25/europe/environ.php?page=1
Oh, and while I’m on the subject of Darwin and Climate Change-
you can compare today’s climate denialists to the theocrats who attacked Darwin when he finally published evolution by Natural Selection. Darwin had a wealth of evidence and facts, but the other side wasn’t interested- they were only interested in what his theory would do to their cosmology (for the Victorians it was God’s Plan and his Great Chain of Being with (white) men as the pinnacle of that Plan) for us it’s the “invisible hand of the market” telling everyone exactly what they’re worth.
Darwin knew the reception he’d get- that’s why he sat on what he knew until Wallace was gonna publish. And sure enough, the shit-storm he envisaged arrived.
Sigh.
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