[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Global Environment Citizen Award

[Damien Broderick]

Moyers is cited as commenting:

>The journalist who truly deserves this award is my friend, Bill McKibben. 
>He enjoys the most conspicuous place in my own pantheon of journalistic 
>heroes for his pioneer work in writing about the environment.

McKibben's ENOUGH is an unpleasant piece of smarmy know-nothing 
equivocation, as I argued on this list with multiple quotes some months 
ago; I make the case against McKibben's disagreeable book once again in my 
forthcoming FEROCIOUS MINDS.

Incredibly, Moyers goes on to denounce (very properly) the fact that:

<One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the 
delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in 
the seat of power in the oval office and in Congress. For the first time in 
our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. >

McKibben is exactly such a theological ideologue, although he masks it a 
little more smoothly than some.

Damien Broderick