From Forum for the Future to Fight the Future ! Forum

Whilst doing a little surfing (of the net rather than the sea) yesterday, I came across a web  ”community” for scientists called Network Nature – www.network.nature.com/groups/futures I was delighted to find a forum on this called “Fight the Future !”, moderated by Nature (the highly regarded scientific journal) writer Henry Gee, and, even more pleased to note that one of the latest forum topics is science fiction.

Now I have to confess to being something of a science sceptic – I know this isn’t fashionable just now ! – and to regarding many “scientific” environmentalists as suppressed technocrats with strong top down planning inclinations. So Mr Gee’s Fight the Future ! Forum, and, indeed, his personal blog, is most refreshing.

This helps me put in perspective the likes of the self-proclaimed leading think-tank on sustainability issues Forum for the Future – www.forumforthefuture.org.uk- which seems to have increasingly become a haven for techno greens and all their science-based visions of the future, based on, I would suggest, a fetishism for forecasts which many more down-to-earth folk might want to fight.