by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: February 16, 2009   Last Updated: February 27, 2009

Should philosophy consider empirical issues of science and land use separately? Ought philosophers inject their opinions on social organization and political philosophy as it pertains to ideas about how the environment should be used? If a philosopher devises some sort of environmental utilitarian theory is it necessary to try it out experimentally in the real world? Could a scholasticism such as St. Aquinas used that features logic and reason over applied environmental science from a secularist, Aristotelian approach find a modern equivalent form of study for environmental issues? These and many other issues and answers might concern philosophers perhaps given a fee like travelling sophists such as Protagoras for providing better opinions about virtually anything than ordinary votaries of mammon.

It was written by a science magazine on-line recently that the world may have passed beyond the realm of normal political fixes for global warming and that extreme unction may be required to cool the atmosphere through the getting technologically jiggy with it. It was reported that scientists had formerly descried the interventionist model for correcting environmental decay of atmospheric health through anthropogenic effects. It became evident that extreme measures like putting a sunscreen in space or some other radical shot in the dark method of hitting the foe may be required to re-balance the destabilized atmosphere. Probably that is a political failure and in no way a failure of philosophy. Wouldn't it be better for philosophers to let the ignorant in politics, technology and globalist business just destroy the world progressively rather than to become involved in the muck, mire and inevitable doom of the corrupt?

Philosophers may review the history of human existence on the planet Earth since the beginning of civilization in a rather selective, interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the incorrigible nature of human social, political and ecclesiastical life. Sure there are exceptional individuals of a brilliant nature and good disposition, and rarely occasional even a good society or organization persisting for a time before its decay into the past. Perhaps philosophers might awaken humanity from the dogmatic slumber of simony, sloth, greed and unwillingness to build concrete monolithic domes with no net loss of biota and halt immigration to the United States while keeping the population less than 310 million souls for the next 1000 years. It is more likely that

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