Random Interesting Thing
Environmentalism and Humanity Wired has an article about Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace who has since broken with what’s generally considered to be the environmental movement:

The unifying principle is simple: “There’s no getting around the fact that 6 billion people wake up every morning with a real need for food, energy, and material.” It is this fact, he charges, that environmentalists fail to grasp. “Their idea is that all human activity is negative, while trees are by nature good,” he says. “That’s a religious interpretation, not a scientific or logical interpretation.”

Posted by tino at 11:26 1.03.04