INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 581 Amsterdam, August 3rd, 2015 KEN WILBER A CLIMATE DENIER? SAY IT AIN’T SO - CLIVE HAMILTON Ken Wilber has built a large and enthusiastic following over the last 20 years with a series of books building his “integral theory of spirituality”. Drawing on the great truths of religious traditions east and west, it’s an all-encompassing story – “a theory of everything” – that Wilber has deployed to considerable effect to explain not just all kinds of religious experience and teaching but everything from the nature of consciousness, psychological theories, art, literature, postmodernism, philosophies of all kinds, feminism, sex, ecology and quantum physics, to name only a few... So, what are we to think when we discover that Ken Wilber has swallowed the poison pill of climate science denial, and sings the praises of Michael Crichton? Crichton is notorious for his novel State of Fear in which he characterizes the vast body of evidence about anthropogenic global warming as a conspiracy among scientists. He retails a series of “facts” about climate change science that have been shown to be manifestly false and based on ignorance, but which the novelist deploys to support his thesis that climate science is used as a form of social control. Of course, State of Fear had leading deniers in the US Congress and the blogosphere cock-a-hoop. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/hamilton1.html