As A Writer You Have A Duty

I'm Not Against Entertainment: If Someone Wants To Read Nonsense-mongers, Let Them, But I Resent The Appearance Of Parity Between Two Articles On An Issue As Serious As Climate Change When One Article Is Actually Gibberish Masked In Pseudoscience And The Other Is Well Informed And Accurate.

All Humans Are Essentially Wild Creatures And Hate Confinement. We Need What Is Wild, And We Thrill To It, Our Wildness Bubbling Over With An Anarchic Joie De Vivre. We Glint When The Wild Light Shines. The More Suffocatingly Enclosed We Are - Tamed By Television, Controlled By Mortgages And Bureaucracy - The Louder Our Wild Genes Scream In Aggression, Anger And Depression.

Clearly, Many Branches Of Science Need An Exquisite Precision Of Timekeeping And The Infinitesimal Decimals Of Calibration, So Space Launches, For Example, Are Not Scheduled For Leap-second Dates. But Society As A Whole Neither Needs That Obsessive Time Measurement Nor Is Well Served By It.

The Silencing Of The Rainforests Is A Double Deforestation, Not Only Of Trees But A Deforestation Of The Mind's Music, Medicine And Knowledge.

If People Can't Acknowledge The Wisdom Of Indigenous Cultures, Then That's Their Loss.