Joel Kontinen
It used to be known as Earth Day. The United Nations has gone a step further and re-named it The International Mother Earth Day.
The green ideology behind this move could hardly have been more obvious.
Some would even say that the mushroom is our brother.
Some others want to give apes and rivers the same rights we have.
The post-Christian world wants its share of holy days, such as Darwin Day and Earth Day.
It is probably no coincidence that the March for Science takes place on 22nd April or (Mother) Earth Day.
To mark the day, we have a celebrity scientist (Neil deGrasse Tyson) warning of the dangers “science denial”.
If this sounds like the newspeak introduced by George Orwell, the most likely explanation is that it indeed is.
By this he means being sceptical of consensus science, i.e. Darwinian evolution and human-induced climate change.
It seems that most of the marchers are leaning left politically. Some of them are probably worried about the war on science, which, as we know, is another illustration of Orwellian newspeak.
We should not forget that while we have a mandate to care for Earth, we should certainly not worship it – that would be idolatry.
Sources:
International Mother Earth Day
Staedter,Tracy. 2017. Neil deGrasse Tyson Warns Science Denial Could 'Dismantle' Democracy. Live Science (20 April).
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