[ExI] "Up against the warming zealots"...hmmm

[Olie Lamb]

On 7/23/07, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm absolutely not saying this is universal - a lot of people care
> about the environment these days, too many to talk in simple
> generalisations. But surely, others here have noticed the same thing?
> Don't you notice that the kinds of people heavily concerned about
> environmental issues are the same people that react particularly
> negatively to transhumanist ideas?
>

True, but the groups I see as reacting most strongly against environmental
causes - Creationists - seem to be far more anti-transhumanist than
knee-jerk environmentalists.  Although they both oppose, say, human germline
engineering, only one group opposes, say, embryonic stem-cell therapy.
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