Staving Off Starvation on Ganymede: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A Heinlein tor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Staving Off Starvation on Ganymede: Farmer in the Sky by Robert A Heinlein tor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The science-as-savior myth coined two plus centuries ago by Europe's Enlightenment has resurfaced as an ecological myth. Like ancient cosmogonic myths in which the gods establish the authority of the king, this new eco-myth crowns the world's scientists as our king. I recommend that we de-mythicize the eco-myth and approach the challenge of the eco-crisis with moral and practical resources. Let's de-mythicize the science-as-savior eco-myth.