All written content from Thoughts of an Environmental Conservative

  • All the Stars we Never See

    All the Stars we Never See

    In our most glorious and technologically advanced places, no one can see the stars. Is our glory, namely our technology, mutually exclusive with the glory…

  • From the Dust of the Ground He Made Him

    From the Dust of the Ground He Made Him

    In Genesis, mankind is depicted as both dominant and dependent on nature. Only through humbly remembering this tension may we fulfill God’s command to reign…

  • An Ecological Critique of Liberalism

    An Ecological Critique of Liberalism

    Like in nature, our relations are intimately interconnected; our whole depends on all its parts. Any ideology that advocates for radical individualism, like the liberal…

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Truly Useful

    Artificial Intelligence and the Truly Useful

    The swift adoption of AI in ways that atrophy or replace the “human arts” reveal just how far our societal conception of “usefulness” has changed.