Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The New Fundamentalists

The Secretary of the UN, Korean Ban Ki-Moon, has this to say about the future of the world:

"We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet."
This is in reference to a UN environmental conference in Copenhagen in December.
However, it smacks of the sorts of dire predictions--based in my opinion upon about the same quality of data--that religious fundies often spout.

Check out this website for a list of recent end-of-world predictions. Do we have two disparate types of fanatics now, each predicting similar things? And gosh. Is one of them the head of the United Nations?
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6 comments:

  1. Steve MartinAugust 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM

    Ki-Moon is being optimistic.

    I give the world 7 weeks.

    Then...if we're still here...I'll give it seven more.

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  2. Bruce GeeAugust 17, 2009 at 5:28 PM

    ...ad nauseum et eternam...


    But I like your number. The number of completion.

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  3. EthanAugust 18, 2009 at 12:38 AM

    Wasn't Ki-Moon the name of a minor Jedi Master in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace?

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  4. Bruce GeeAugust 18, 2009 at 7:01 AM

    That, Ethan, would sound just about right.

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  5. AnonymousAugust 23, 2009 at 6:55 AM

    From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just for you.

    http://www.jsonline.com/features/travel/53957537.html

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  6. AnonymousAugust 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23wright.html?_r=1

    Clive Staples Lewis again:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23wright.html?_r=1

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