"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose
In my latest National Post column I say we need to be far more alert about online security, and demand that our governments take it seriously too.
Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA, aka EFN-USA, have also posted a positive review and helpful links to The Environment: A True Story. I really appreciate everyone who's helping make people aware of the documentary because the topic is so important and the time is ripe for a challenge to the conventional wisdom.
Thanks to the American Institute for Economic Research for a very favourable review of The Environment: A True Story. It's extremely gratifying to see that the word seems to be getting out, including now over 3700 YouTube views.
In my latest National Post column I say the solution to mean-spirited echo chambers and fake news online is in the mirror.
"When we are asked why eggs turn to birds or fruits fall in autumn, we must answer exactly as the fairy godmother would answer if Cinderella asked her why mice turned to horses or her clothes fell from her at twelve o’clock. We must answer that it is magic. It is not a 'law,' for we do not understand its general formula...."
G.K. Chesterton in “The Ethics of Elfland” in Orthodoxy quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #3 (Nov.-Dec. 2007)
"The narrowest hinge on my hand puts to scorn all machinery."
Walt Whitman, quoted in John Stewart Collis, Living With A Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body
The Environment: A True Story is now available on YouTube in shorter chapters as well as the full film. I'm pleased to say the complete documentary has already had over 1200 views in just over a week which for a 160 minute feature is very satisfying.
For those who find it more convenient to watch (or easier to keep track of where you've gotten to in it) in shorter segments it's also now posted as a YouTube playlist.