I’ve previously blogged about my personal paradigm shift where I realised, after a lifetime of worshipping at the altar of logical, predictable, universal science, that science is, in truth, unpredictable and irrational. I explained, “For me to say this is like a Christian turning away from God, a Tory voting Labour, or a once-fun person becoming a vegan.” Well, I’ve recently experienced another shift. This one’s a bit trickier to articulate because I run the risk of angering some environmental campaigners and nature lovers whom I admire immensely as well as those campaigners/lovers I do not. I don’t mind angering the latter lot; in truth, sometimes I go out of my way to anger them because a) I’m bad and b) they’re badder. The alternative to writing this blog, and therefore not angering those I admire, would be to not write it (that statement is an example of me worshipping at the altar of logic), but by choosing not to write it, I’d be self-censoring. According to Wiki, self-censorsh...