From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: maandag 26 maart 2007 20:27 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] Integral Environmentalism INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 188 Amsterdam, March 26, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "AQAL Journal" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ Integral World puts the environment on the agenda, hopefully the start of a new debate! And the Middle East debate between Ray Harris and Jeff Meyerhoff continues, covering both content and process. WHY WE NEED AN INTEGRAL ENVIRONMENTALISM - Anthony Galli Lately, it seems, Hollywood has been embracing the idea that climate change is a compelling issue. 2004 saw the release of the popular thriller The Day After Tomorrow. While the movie was entertaining enough, the science was downright awful, perhaps reinforcing the stereotype that environmentalists are paranoid “gloom-and-doom” types little different from religious nuts convinced that the apocalypse is neigh. Worse, the plot implies that a disastrous shift in weather patterns is inevitable and all we can do is battle it out as best we can when it happens. At least it grabbed some attention. Last summer, former vice-president Al Gore's award-winning An Inconvenient Truth took it a step further by actually citing scientific evidence in his documentary. His gospel is more optimistic in the sense that it conveys that message that while time is running out, we still have a chance to redeem ourselves. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/galli7.html DEBATING DEBATE: A THIRD REPLY TO RAY HARRIS - Jeff Meyerhoff As I wrote my second reply to Ray Harris - which, like my first, took me two weeks to research and assemble - I wondered, with a mixture of curiosity and dread, whether it would again take him only one or two days to respond. After repeatedly emphasizing in my second reply that his assertions were almost wholly undocumented, I figured he would feel obligated to cite scholarly sources to justify his assertions. But again, astoundingly, the bulk of his assertions are undocumented and too often they don't respond to the arguments I make. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff9.html FACTS AND JUDGMENTS: MORE OF A THIRD REPLY TO RAY HARRIS - Jeff Meyerhoff In his "Reply to Meyerhoff, Part 2," Ray Harris rightly shows that a summary of Benny Morris's work that I used was not up-to-date, being from an earlier edition of Morris's book on the Palestinian refugees. This is the kind of critical commentary that I assumed would be the basis of our discussion. It comes quite late, but it is good to see; however, I don't see that it helps Harris's argument. Benny Morris may be the most well known of the Israeli new historians. His exhaustively researched studies of the origins of Israel have altered the terms of the scholarly debate. But it is important, especially regarding Morris, to distinguish between the facts he adduces and his ethical and political judgments of those facts. While Harris is right to question my source, we have to be careful not to conflate fact and judgment. First the facts. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff10.html 03/21/07: The German translation by Hape Lin of Jeff Meyerhoff's second reply Ray Harris' called "Dispelling the Myths" has been added to the German Section. 03/18/03: A footer text has been added to the Welcome page explaining that Integral World offers an independent forum for the critical reflection on Ken Wilber's philosophy. If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html