Look at the Beaver Looking

Abstract

This chapter begins Part III, which opens heterodox lines of questioning about climate change and the high-energy way of life. It does so from the perspective of someone whose faith in the energy orthodoxy is waffling. The chapter begins with a vignette about a Texas gas station with a beaver mascot. It then revisits the parable of the fisherman to examine the insecurities and counter-productivities that hound the high-energy quest for security and productivity. Next, the chapter criticizes the scientism of the energy orthodoxy before concluding with a turn toward phenomenology as the way into heterodox truths that evade the orthodoxy.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 13:11