Must reading: "It's not the end of the world - it's the end of you" by Spengler in the Asia Times at:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FB03Aa01.html

Excerpts:

" ... The evangelical zealotry that motivates the global-warmers has a different source than the facts.

"Human beings cannot bear their own transient existence without some hope of immortality. Except for the Americans, whom Europeans dismiss as bovine about such things, the children of the West long ago abandoned the promise of [Christian] religion. ...

"For the same reason that men cannot live without the hope of immortality, they cannot bear their gray, miserable lives without some sense of exaltation - religion, art, music, poetry, sex, drugs, violence, whatever.

"By living on the underside of popular culture, the young people of the West make themselves feel worthless and insignificant. ...

"The sense of the transcendent they derive from contemplating nature is of desperate importance. 'It is not that I will pass from the earth without leaving so much as a grease spot to mark my stay,' thinks the Green. 'It is the earth herself who is in danger.' ...

"Anxiety about the irreversible disappearance of some feature of the natural world substitutes for the death anxiety of the individual. ...

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