Quick Takes – Eco-Overlords: Rights Of Nature Tribunal; Eco-Marxist Education; Reshaping Your Diet

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: The Acolytes of Gaia shall ensure your Green compliance… or else!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     In service of Gaia, a tribunal was called to punish those who violate the “Rights of Nature”.

“The tribunal’s website is typical of the anti-humanism that permeates the nature-rights movement. For example, the fundamental philosophy of nature rights — as elucidated at the website, is ‘that the interests of nonhuman beings are of equal importance to human interests.’ So, pond scum, mosquitoes, trees, squirrels, grass, and scallops are equal to us. That’s self-loathing any way you look at it.

“Worse, adopting such a misanthropic approach to environmentalism would have serious consequences to human thriving. For example, forget about heating your home in the winter. Fossil-fuel industries are a primary target. Thus, the tribunal will hold a faux trial to prosecute fossil-fuel industries.”

     This “tribunal” in its own words:

“The International Rights of Nature Tribunal will leverage the platform of Climate Week New York to amplify its message and advocate for the Rights of Nature, calling for genuine solutions to the climate crisis. The Tribunal hearing will highlight the fossil fuel industry’s ongoing impacts on frontline communities in the U.S. and worldwide, including ecological destruction and exacerbation of the climate crisis. It will specifically examine the industry’s devastating effects on biodiversity and BIPOC communities.”

     You will be indoctrinated, comrade:

“Rhode Island College will offer English students a chance to study ‘eco-Marxism’ in a course purporting to combine literature and ‘ecocriticism.’

“As a theory, eco-Marxism asserts that Marxist thought is the solution to the degradation of the environment by capitalism.

“‘Along the way we will pay close attention to two subfields of ecocriticism: “social ecology” and “eco-Marxism,”’ the course description for “Literature, Environment, and Ecocriticism’ says.

“‘Our overarching goal is to learn about and apply the analytical and interpretive tools of ecocriticism in order to write about cultural texts of all kinds.’

“‘We will explore the intersection of environmental studies and the humanities from a perspective informed by environmental science, cultural narrative, history, and ideology, including the very latest data regarding key environmental benchmarks,’ it continues.”

     Technology allowed us to freeze food in order to preserve it. This is apparently an affront to Gaia.

“Like you really don’t need to have a tomato in December, it’s going to taste like nothing anyway, just don’t do it.”

     TTFN.

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