The Earth as a Living Organism

More garbage from what used to be science. I won't bother posting a link to anything, I will just discuss it. There is a scientist who has published a paper claiming that the earth is a living organism. This is not the first time this silliness has been proposed. There were a number of people who believed in the "Gaia" idea and it would satisfy many "environmentalists" who want to give the earth the right to sue people when we damage it.

The earth is not a living being, it has living beings on it; but, it is not a living being itself. It is not science to claim that it is, it is probably just an attempt to get UN funding. Where has intellectual integrity gone? The news is nothing but spin and science says whatever it is paid to say.

In order for people to accept the horrid way in which the world works and where it is going people have to come to believe certain things. Lets look at this for a moment.

rsn - 10 Steps Toward Radical Revolution in the USA

Lets look at where many people think they want to go. The above article lays it out; but, I am only interested in a couple of them items for the moment. First - Direct Democracy. Second - Don't let corporations be treated as people. Third - Protect the Earth. Fourth - Everyone has the right to a living wage job. The article mentions others; but, I chose these because they sound good and are not in the application.

Direct Democracy, I have written about that previously. You cannot have meaningful laws under direct democracy, only vague ones that the people enforcing will determine what was really meant.

Treating corporations as people. One of my professors once said that the creation of the corporation as a legal entity was one of the greatest things ever done. He pointed out that it allowed for large projects to be jointly funded and made people willing to invest in such endeavors. Putting an end to this legal fiction will mean that there will be no competition because new large organizations will be incapable of emerging.

Protecting the earth, well, after all it is a person, lol. This is the idea that the earth matters and you do not. Garbage.

Finally, everyone having a right to a living wage job. They told the Jews that in Nazi Germany, "Work is Freedom". Be careful when something is called a right and it becomes a requirement. If everyone has a right to a job, what happens to the people who don't exercise that right? Do we force them to work? That will be the answer and that is true slavery.