Haiti: Danny Glover Choses Gaia Over Pat Robertson’s God And The Devil
THOUSANDS of lives have ended in the Haiti eathquake. The media is thinking of a number of dead, and doubling it. In “Haiti: Global Warming And The Devil”, Pat Robertson looks a land cursed. God has chosen his victims. But Danny Glover says it’s not God – it’s Gaia.
Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”
Says Brendan O’Neil:
Many are slating his stupidity and backwardness. Yet his real mistake, it seems, was to deploy religious language, rather than pseudo-scientific language, to make his poisonous point. Because today, moralising natural disasters, personifying them, imbuing them with sentience and purpose and vengeance, is a popular pursuit amongst secularists, commentators and climate-change alarmists, for whom everything from flooding to almighty gusts of wind reveals the ‘connections between our unsustainable lifestyles and climate change’.
Here’s Glover:
One thing we can all agree on: if you want to know about anything, ask a celebrity…
Posted: 15th, January 2010 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
