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Environmentalism as religion

By Alliance Alert

Joel Garreau writing in The New Atlantis: "For some individuals and societies, the role of religion seems increasingly to be filled by environmentalism. It has become 'the religion of choice for urban atheists,' according to Michael Crichton, the late science fiction writer (and climate change skeptic) . . . In parts of northern Europe, this new faith is now the mainstream . . . This new faith has very concrete policy implications; the countries where it has the most purchase tend also to have instituted policies that climate activists endorse. To better understand the future of climate policy, we must understand where 'ecotheology' has come from and where it is likely to lead."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).