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How to Deal with Stupid Part 3/10: Eco-fundamentalism: The rise of environmental dogma

December 11, 2015

Eco-fundamentalism is a religious dogma that allows stupid to thrive via a naturalogic that puts faith over evidence.

Posted by David Zaruk

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, Climate & Environment, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Health & Consumers, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

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I Pollute

March 18, 2014

Imagine a religion that looks at the problems in the world and concludes that it is because others sin. “If only they could be more like me!” A faith without humility and mercy is hypocritical – a congregation of zealots. As environmentalists build their beliefs into their new temple, the eco-theologians need to remind their followers of the virtue of humility – that they are not without sin.

Posted by David Zaruk

Energy Efficiency, Environment, EU Priorities and Opinion, Health & Lifestyle, Innovation and Growth, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

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David Zaruk is the Risk-Monger. He has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2001, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle. He was part of the team that set up GreenFacts to encourage a wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental health matters. He is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College and Facultés Universitaires St-Louis where he lectures on Risk Communications, EU Lobbying, Corporate Communications and PR. He still does some consulting work at Risk Perception Management, but only for friends and he refuses the timesheet mentality that has made consulting into a mercenary-like profession. In the past, he has been employed by Solvay, Cefic and Burson-Marsteller, retiring from "active work" in 2006.

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