{"id":339139,"date":"2024-08-10T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339139"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T15:49:12","slug":"environmentalism-or-individualism-part-1-americas-enlightenment-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339139","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalism or Individualism? (Part 1: America\u2019s Enlightenment Heritage)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bidinotto\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed. Note<\/strong>: The ideology of environmentalism has proven itself to be, by far, the most persuasive enemy of the Master Resource, energy. Pollution \u2026 Health Hazards \u2026 Species Extinction \u2026 Ecosystem Destruction \u2026 Resource Exhaustion \u2026 Global Cooling \u2026 Global Warming \u2026 Melting Glaciers \u2026 Rising Seas \u2026 Climate Change. Why do the enemies of energy industries seem always to fall back, in the end, on environmentalist themes for their strongest and most effective stands? Is there something deeply embedded in our Western culture that makes the philosophy of environmentalism the most influential instrument for opposition to the energy industry?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Master Resource begins a six-part series analyzing the philosophic basis of environmentalism, its enmity to the technologies of instrumental reason (especially energy technology), as well as its incompatibility with the foundational individualist philosophy of the United States. Written some years ago by the award-winning essayist Robert Bidinotto<\/a>, this manifesto seemed worth preserving here at MR now that Bidinotto has moved on professionally to writing the best-selling Dylan Hunter political-thriller series (including one novel featuring environmentalist villains!). A fuller biographical note appears at the end of each post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new Environmentalism was the complete antithesis of the American Founders\u2019 Enlightenment outlook of reason, science, individualism, self-responsibility, personal freedom, private property, and capitalism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Every culture and its institutions are the living embodiments of certain dominant ideas. At its birth, America\u2019s basic premises were part and parcel of the glorious historical period that was rightly called \u201cthe Enlightenment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his book The Empire of Reason<\/em>, historian Henry Steele Commager wonderfully captured the spirit of the American Enlightenment. Men such as Franklin and Jefferson, he wrote, had \u201ca prodigality about them; they recognized no bounds to their curiosity, no barriers to their thought, no limits to their activities.\u201d Commager cited \u201ctheir confidence in Reason, their curiosity about the secular world and\u2014with most of them\u2014their indifference to any other, their addiction to Science\u2014if useful\u2014their habit of experimentation, and their confidence in improvement\u2026\u201d Heroic achievers, these men \u201cexalted Reason and worshipped at the altar of Liberty.\u201d1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That linkage between reason and liberty wasn\u2019t coincidental: men of reason require freedom to explore, to communicate their ideas, to realize their visions. And what is the goal of these activities? In Jefferson\u2019s immortal words, \u201cthe pursuit of happiness\u201d: that is, personal fulfillment and self-interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such were the ideas and values of America\u2019s Founders. Their individualist<\/em> ethic, embodied in the social system of capitalism, has produced\u2014in what amounts historically to the blink of an eye\u2014the greatest material abundance the world has ever known. Once people were encouraged to employ their minds in the pursuit of personal values\u2014and once they were politically free to do so\u2014a torrent of human ingenuity and energy was unleashed, curing hunger, disease, poverty, and ignorance on an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not just America, but every country and culture that adopted these ideas progressed dramatically to the extent it did so. On the other hand, every society that turned its back on these ideas continued to suffer, as primitive societies had suffered throughout history. Witness in our time the intellectual, economic, and political collapse of all forms of socialism, including fascism and communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would seem that this practical demonstration of the extraordinary benefits of reason, individualism, liberty, and capitalism should have been enough to convince all the world\u2014and certainly the world\u2019s intellectuals and leaders\u2014of their unarguable merits. Yet ironically, these Enlightenment ideas, which have given the world so much, are still considered controversial and suspect. And not just the ideas, but also the rational faculty that generates them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In fact, Man himself is no longer praised as a conqueror of nature\u2019s obstacles, nor even accepted as just another part of the natural world. To many, he is an interloper, an alien presence on the planet\u2014even nature\u2019s enemy\u2014and his creative works are increasingly regarded as a growing menace to all that exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[W]e are threatening to push the earth out of balance,\u201d warned former Vice President Al Gore in his book, Earth in the Balance<\/em>. \u201cModern industrial civilization, as presently organized, is colliding violently with our planet\u2019s ecological system. The ferocity of its assault on the earth is breathtaking, and the horrific consequences are occurring so quickly as to defy our capacity to recognize them, comprehend their global implications, and organize an appropriate and timely response.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip Shabecoff, formerly the chief environmental reporter for the New York Times<\/em>, summed up this outlook in his history of the American environmental movement: \u201c\u2026[A]n unspoiled land of great beauty and wonder began to change when Europeans came here five hundred years ago,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIts resources were squandered\u2026large areas were sullied, disfigured, and degraded, and\u2026our negligent use of the Promethean forces of science and technology has brought us to the verge of disaster.\u201d3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Promethean allusion is strikingly appropriate, for Prometheus was the Titan of Greek mythology who loved Man, and brought to him the fire of the Gods\u2014a tool by which he could transform nature for his own benefit. It is perhaps the archetypal myth of Western civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But many\u2014certainly, many who rally under the green banner of environmentalism\u2014now hold that worldview in contempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmentalism vs. The Enlightenment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/strong>he essence of the environmentalist outlook is suggested in the title of Mr. Gore\u2019s book, and made clear in its pages. It\u2019s the view that everything in nature exists in a perfectly harmonious balance\u2014a balance ever threatened by the activities of Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roots of this outlook lie deep in antiquity. \u201cWe encounter the \u2018paradise myth\u2019 all over the world in more or less complex forms,\u201d writes classical scholar Mircea Eliade. \u201cActually, all these myths show primitive man enjoying blessedness, spontaneity, and liberty, which he has most annoyingly lost as the consequence of the \u2018fall\u2019\u2026\u201d4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, in seminally influential writings, the Greek writer Hesiod (circa 750\u2013<\/a>650 BC) presented the so-called \u201cmyth of the ages,\u201d or of a lost, blissful \u201cGolden Age.\u201d The Roman poet Ovid (43 BC\u2013AD 17), \u201cone of the most influential of the Latin writers of antiquity,\u201d5<\/a><\/sup> fleshed out the myth of the ages and transformed it into a consistent, compelling story of man\u2019s decay that is remarkably resonant with the themes and narratives of contemporary environmentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these transcultural myths, the cause of Man\u2019s decadence or \u201cfall\u201d from a previous blissful state of paradise is almost always rooted in the sin of hubris<\/em>, of pride, and of self-assertion\u2014especially intellectual self-assertion\u2014against authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the Greek myth of Prometheus. By giving men the knowledge of the gods, Prometheus enrages Zeus, who chains him to a rock to suffer a thousand years of torture. And to punish Man he sends him the first mortal woman, Pandora, bearing a box that he forbids her to open. But moved by curiosity, she opens it anyway, unleashing on Man all the evils of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, when given wings of wax, Icarus is warned by his father not to try to fly too high, but the lad ignores him. Soaring upward, the aspiring youth flies too close to the sun, where his wings melt and he falls to his doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greeks believed that hubris had to be suppressed by recognizing something greater than oneself, by cultivating a sense of humility before the gods or some higher good. Man\u2019s proper path lay in self-restraint, in practicing virtues centered on the idea of moderation, such as prudence, wisdom, and temperance. The importance of humility and steering a moderate course is illustrated in the cautionary Greek myth of Pha\u00ebton, who insists on driving his father\u2019s chariot to bear the sun across the sky. But heedless of warnings, he fails to stay on the middle course through the heavens and, flying out of control, sets the world on fire and perishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fear of unrestrained human aspirations, especially Man\u2019s boundless thirst for knowledge, is equally evident in the Judeo-Christian tradition. To the ideals of humility and moderation, the Old Testament incorporates its own version of the paradise myth in the form of a pastoral ideal, symbolized by the Garden of Eden.

In Genesis 2:4\u20133:24 (King James Version), God plants a Garden, separate from the rest of nature, \u201cand there he put the man whom he had formed\u201d (2:8). This Garden is like a desert oasis, irrigated by a river from Eden\u2014an earthly paradise that contains \u201cevery tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food\u201d (2:9\u201310). God also creates for Adam (\u201cman\u201d) a female companion, whom the man later names Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam and Eve live together in the \u201cpleasant\u201d Garden as naked, ignorant primitives, eating the fruit of the trees that God has planted for them (there is no mention of killing and eating animals). Provided a virtually effortless sustenance, Adam\u2019s only assigned tasks in the Garden are \u201cto dress it and keep it\u201d (2:15) and to name all the animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Adam and Eve defy the authority of God and eat fruit from a forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. As a result of this Original Sin, God tells them that, as punishment, they will be expelled from the paradisiacal Garden into the harsh state of nature. Thereafter, merely to survive, Adam must \u201ctill the ground from whence he was taken\u201d\u2014soil that God has \u201ccursed\u201d and filled with thorns and thistles\u2014and he must labor \u201cin sorrow\u201d to produce bread by \u201cthe sweat of [his] face\u201d until he dies. Eve is cursed, too: she henceforth will conceive and give birth \u201cin sorrow\u201d and be subjugated to the will of her husband (3:16-24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Judeo-Christian story of Man\u2019s fall from a pastoral \u201cparadise\u201d mirrors the core themes of the transcultural \u201cmyth of the ages\u201d and similar ones. Other tales from the Bible reinforce these themes. For example, later in Genesis, when men try to build a tower that can reach heaven, God laments that \u201cnow nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.\u201d6<\/a><\/sup> So to punish men once again for their unrestrained imagination and ambition, He scatters them across the earth and confuses their languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the basic premises about Man and his world that these ancient morality tales have transmitted across the centuries\u2014premises communicated in songs, sermons, images, icons, fiction, films, and scholarly works\u2014premises that have shaped the thinking and the lives of billions. Here, in summary, is their message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything in nature exists in harmonious balance and perfect order (the myth of the Golden Age and the Eden myth). Man\u2019s duty is to accept his humble niche within this benign, bountiful, and balanced paradise, where he can exist simply and non-intrusively (the virtue of humility). However, Man\u2019s ambition\u2014especially his quest to improve himself by gaining and applying knowledge\u2014represents a grave peril to this pastoral ideal (the sin of pride). Man\u2019s ambitious exercise of his creative intelligence disturbs the tranquility and destroys the harmony of the pristine natural order (the danger of reason and the sin of selfish ambition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To prevent chaos, therefore, Man\u2019s evil, selfish appetites must be curbed, and his intelligence suppressed. That is the task of morality, whose virtues consist of constraints: humility, obedience, self-suppression, sacrifice of self to a \u201cgreater\u201d good. By limiting Man\u2019s disruptive ambitions and creative aspirations, then, morality will preserve the natural balance and order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since antiquity, this worldview has been drummed dogmatically into billions of brains\u2014so successfully that it\u2019s now the reigning interpretive template. It\u2019s the basis for most people\u2019s understanding of the world around them. It\u2019s the code of values governing their choices and actions. It\u2019s the metaphysical and moral heritage upon which writers such as Al Gore and Philip Shabecoff draw\u2014and which they intuitively trust their readers to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the spiritual soil in which the seeds of the environmentalist philosophy and movement have taken root and flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also the complete antithesis of the philosophical outlook of America\u2019s Founders:  a rejection of the Enlightenment outlook that, like Prometheus, championed Man and his requirements for living on earth: reason, science, individualism, self-responsibility, personal freedom, private property, and capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rational individualism was the emerging worldview for people newly liberated from superstition, savagery, stagnation, and slavery\u2014people striving to explore, develop, use, and enjoy the earth\u2019s resources. Rational individualism was the philosophy of modernity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even in America, this modern, progressive ideal never fully overcame the pre-modern \u201cideal\u201d of The Eden Premise. That atavistic ideal continued to hold a viselike grip upon millions who feared the prospect of self-responsibility, and hated the socio-economic system that demanded it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Henry Steele Commager,\u00a0The Empire of Reason<\/em><\/a>: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment<\/em>\u00a0(Garden City, NJ: Anchor Press\/Doubleday, 1977), pp. 3, 15, 241.\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Al Gore,\u00a0Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(New York: Plume edition\/Penguin Books, 1993), pp. 2, 269.\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Philip Shabecoff,\u00a0A Fierce Green Fire<\/em><\/a>: The American Environmental Movement<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Hill and Wang, 1993), p. xiii.\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Mircea Eliade,\u00a0\u201cThe Yearning for Paradise in Primitive Tradition,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Diogenes<\/em>, University of Chicago Press, Summer 1953; reprinted in Henry A. Murray, ed.,\u00a0Myth and Mythmaking<\/em>\u00a0(Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1968), p. 62.\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Larry Kreitzer,\u00a0Prometheus and Adam<\/a>: Enduring Symbols of the Human Situation<\/em>\u00a0(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994), p. 27.\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Tower of Babel story<\/a>: Genesis 11:1\u20139 (King James Version).\u00a0\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    About the Author<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Robert Bidinotto is an award-winning journalist, editor, lecturer, and novelist who reports on cultural and political issues from the perspective of principled individualism. Over three decades he has established a reputation as a leading critic of environmentalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As a former Staff Writer for Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em>, Bidinotto authored high-profile investigative reports on environmental issues, crime, and other public controversies\u2014including articles on global warming and the 1989 Alar scare. His Alar article was singled out for editorial praise by Barron\u2019s<\/em> and by Priorities<\/em>, the journal of the American Council on Science and Health. He authored a monograph, The Green Machine<\/em>,and for several years ran a website (\u201cecoNOT\u201d), both critically examining the environmentalist philosophy and movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Bidinotto\u2019s many articles, columns, and reviews also appeared in Success<\/em>, Writer\u2019s Digest, The Boston Herald<\/em>, The American Spectator<\/em>, City Journal<\/em>, The Freeman<\/em>, and Reason<\/em>. He served as the award-winning editor of The New Individualist<\/em>, a political and cultural magazine, and as editor of publications for the Capital Research Center, a nonprofit watchdog group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In 2011, Bidinotto began writing political thrillers. HUNTER<\/em>\u2014the debut novel in his Dylan Hunter series\u2014soared to the top of the Amazon and Wall St. Journal <\/em>bestseller lists. BAD DEEDS<\/em>, the first sequel, dramatizes the evils and dangers of environmentalism. A number-one best-selling Audible political thriller, BAD DEEDS <\/em>was named \u201cBook of the Year\u201d by the Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance. Bidinotto\u2019s thrillers are available on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Learn more about Robert Bidinotto at his fiction website, \u201cThe Vigilante Author\u201d<\/a> and at his nonfiction blog<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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