Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970926114303.27296A-100000@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:56:34 -0400 From: "Kenneth E. Loucks" <mailto:keloucks@SPARTAN.AC.BROCKU.CA> Subject: Re: IGNORANT! DANGEROUS! To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Ndungu Kahihu wrote:> V.Dimitrof> There is no scientific statement in the conclusion, only
> > green-evangelist rhetoric (appropriate for a journalist, not for a
> > scientist) - which leaves the reader wondering what the whole article
> > wanted to prove.
> With all due respect I can not see how you came to this conclusion if,
> as you imply, you read the whole of Jay Hanson's article and, your
> words, >all the sources quoted thein.... The real threat to the world
> caused by unsustainable human behaviour does not even need a scientist
> to explain, not even a thinker. You come to Africa one day and, in my
> country alone, I'll show you exactly the damage we have done, mainly
> thanks to the uncritical application of western education and now
> western (mainly capitalistic) attitudes. And I am not even a thinker.
With all due respect, I have been to Africa and your country and seen the damage. However, I attribute it to quite different causes than you do and that is why we DO need a thinker and even a scientist. The analysis done so far says more about the observer(s) than the causes. However when these things are pointed out people tend to attach more weight to where I am from than the merits of my argument. I guess ignorance is in the eye of the beholder.
>
> Of course there are very many people here who are equally uncomfortable
> (as you seem to be) when such things are pointed out, but this does not
> make the sad truth dissapear.
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>
> Ndungu
>