This is old: but oh, so true. Steven Hayward:
People often ask me why environmentalists tend always to incline to apocalyptic conclusions about the state of the planet. “Because it makes them happy,” is my standard response.
Steven went on to say that he wasn’t being tongue-in-cheek; and I agree, he wasn’t. There is a remarkable amount of schadenfreude in most depictions of eco-apocalypse, coupled with the nigh-universal presence of gloating in those works where a Saving Remnant exists to watch the rest of the world drown, burn, and/or decay*. One wonders how the people who enjoy that sort of thing feel when the Apocalypse never quite comes….
Via AoSHQ , via Ed Driscoll.
Moe Lane
*Don’t smirk: the themes exist in other dystopian fictional works, too. Notably including both in some Tribulation stories and, most famously, in that epic work of softcore sadism pornography known as Atlas Shrugged.