The tree-hugger pysche…

5 September 2008

…is clearly one of delusion.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

How do you communicate with individuals that out of touch with scientific reality? How do you respond to such an irrational, hyper-emotional pysche?

Call it for what is it, I guess. Patrick Moore – Canadian ecologist and founding member of Greenpeace International – says it better than I ever could (0:18 in 2nd video):

To talk about how the tree is alive and has feelings and it hurts it when you cut it down and that sort of stuff – that’s pretty well kindergarten talk. I mean, it’s not true. Trees are plants, like carrots and cabbages.