The Green religion
posted at 12:19 pm on May 16, 2007 by Bryan
Whoever said that the climate change movement is at its heart a religious movement?
It’s not like it has its own oracle. Or foundational text.
It’s not like they go around building replicas of revered religious objects to make grand points or tote the faith’s holy scripts.
And no religion is complete without spawning its own group of critical skeptics.
If greenism is a religion, it’s a syncretic one.
(thanks to Chris)
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Not to nitpick, but I think that’s more accurate.
ReubenJCogburn on May 16, 2007 at 12:32 PM
I think greenism is a religion – it’s a load of self-serving, moralistic nonsense that encourages people to surrender free thought in favor of conformity. Just like all religions.
Enrique on May 16, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Anyone know of a good stock buy one could make to profit a bit from this?
They way I see it, carbon offsets are big money. Love it or hate it, this global warming swindle is being bought, lock stock and barrel, worldwide.
I may as well enrich myself before
the floodthis all gets revealed as the greatest global sham ever.If “global warming” is now a religion, I’d like to trump it with an older faith.
All hail the Church of Cold Hard Cash.
JunkCoast on May 16, 2007 at 12:36 PM
They are just plain nuts! The latest rant from Reuters Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle cites North Pole skydiving as one of the way we are destroying the planet.
http://AlisterDoyleWatch.mee.nu
Jose Chupacabra on May 16, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Where’s Indiana Jones to take the ark away from the socialist extremists?
Valiant on May 16, 2007 at 12:48 PM
They even have their own Eucharist – organically grown veggies and lattes.
infidel4life on May 16, 2007 at 12:48 PM
I see it as a new wave of communism. Read the language and see what their solutions are. The enemy is (as shown in bold in the first sentence above) capitalism. Instead of “Red Scare”, this time it’s the Green Scare. And this time, the “Scare” comes from within America.
Rick on May 16, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Although there is science that supports them, like any true religon, most of their beliefs are based on faith.
BohicaTwentyTwo on May 16, 2007 at 12:59 PM
They also go to church (yoga)
BillLalor on May 16, 2007 at 1:05 PM
A perfect thread to once again link to Michael Crichton’s Environmentalism as Religion speech.
Highly recommended reading.
thirteen28 on May 16, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Bryan, this is from last year, but there is an image (not photo) of the ark in the Meditation Room at the U.N. There are a few links there that may interest you, as well.
Connie on May 16, 2007 at 1:19 PM
I garan-gawddang-tee that not a SINGLE one of them can pass a drug test.
Mazztek on May 16, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Uh, yeah. It’s absolutely just communism wrapped in a new name… just like everything else the left does.
Editor on May 16, 2007 at 1:24 PM
You are going to need it to offset the massive increase in taxes and penalties that are sure to follow.
mojowire on May 16, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Check this one out, too. Gordon Brown (yes, Tony Blair’s replacement) based this on Soros and his garbage.
Connie on May 16, 2007 at 1:28 PM
oops
Global Marshall Plan
Connie on May 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
So is this the new “religion of peace”?
Rick on May 16, 2007 at 1:33 PM
No, but close. It’s the religion of Greenpeace.
Bryan on May 16, 2007 at 1:37 PM
No doubt, mojowire. Offsetting the hidden costs of offsets. Does it get crazier than that?
Ah well. I’ve shored up a bit already by purchasing Exxon/Mobil.
Three cheers for record profits! Take THAT greenies!
So, in this (quite excellent) comparison between religion and envirolunacy, who plays the role of satan, anyway?
And don’t say George Bush. That is a little overused. ;)
JunkCoast on May 16, 2007 at 1:39 PM
Does that mean he’s the “prophet”?
Rick on May 16, 2007 at 1:48 PM
Do we still need them to create their own ten commandments or can we demand church-state separation now to get the government out of the climate change business?
Dusty on May 16, 2007 at 2:01 PM
ACLU?…Bueller?…
Rick on May 16, 2007 at 2:04 PM
Wow. An actual “ark of hope” housing “temenos” books written in a pagan “sacred circle.” Actually the context makes it unclear if using “temenos” and “sacred circle” in the same sentence is redundent.
It takes a special kind of humorlessness to come up with a crazy stunt like this. No kid who ever watched Saturday-afternoon B-movies could fail to mock this mercilessly. My guess is that the “ark of hope” folks were suffering wedgies and locker-stuffing while the rest of us were watching King Solomon’s Mines and the like.
Anton on May 16, 2007 at 2:11 PM
I should add that I briefly investigated a field called “ecotopian design” during a late-80′s fascination with human-powered vehicles (such as the well-publicized Gossamer Albatross airplane).
All meaningful environmental change starts with engineering. If the problem is technological, so is the solution. You can throw all the sacred circles and artfully decorated arks of hope you want at environmental problems, and they won’t do anything more than junk up the landscape.
For that matter, carbon offsets won’t move a stick of technology either.
Anton on May 16, 2007 at 2:17 PM
I can’t let this go. I urge you all to follow Bryan’s link to arkofhope.org to see how disturbingly creepy this is.
The greenies had hundreds of folks parading this “ark” into New York like some pagan procession straight out of the “Rome” miniseries.
The “ark” itself looks like a fairly nice work of art. It’s the cultic followers who scare me.
Anton on May 16, 2007 at 2:25 PM
I’ve been saying for the last 5 years their movement had all the characteristics of a religious cult.
Damn, I love it when I’m right!
I’m just waiting for them to build altars and offer tofu & carbon credit sacrifices to their messiah, Al Gore. I will get a little spooked though if Gore goes “Jim Jones” and starts to offer his members kool aid or “heaven’s gate” and starts talking aliens that will “beam them up” to save the Earth.
Planet Boulder on May 16, 2007 at 2:54 PM
Thanks again for your acrimonious commentary on religion. We’d be lost without you.
Of course it’s completely inaccurate, but how could you know that?
Esthier on May 16, 2007 at 3:07 PM
Read this.
UN plans to release untapped wealth of $7 trillion (and solve the world’s problems at a stroke)
“In a groundbreaking move, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has drawn up a visionary proposal that has been endorsed by a range of figures including Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate.
It says an unprecedented outbreak of co-operation between countries, applied through six specific financial tools, would slice through the Gordian knot of problems that have bedevilled the world for most of the last century.
If its recommendations are accepted – and the authors acknowledge this could take years or even decades – it could finally force countries to face up to the fact that their public finance and growth figures conceal the vast damage their economies do to the environment.”
Memo to Charles Krauthammer. I love you dearly, but do you really think incoming PM Gordon Brown is a real friend of the U.S.?
“At the heart of the proposal, unveiled at a gathering of world business leaders at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, is a push to get countries to account for the cost of failed policies, and use the money saved “up front” to avert crises before they hit. Top of the list is a challenge to the United States to join an international pollution permit trading system which, the UN claims, could deliver $3.64trn of global wealth.“
Connie on May 16, 2007 at 3:15 PM
Well… by banning DDT for no real reason back in the 70s they already started Human Sacrifice…
http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm
Some estimates are that as many as 2 million a year die from malaria who didn’t have too. Over 30 years this makes it the worst mass genocide in the history of man.
Brought to you by the Politicians at the EPA.
Romeo13 on May 16, 2007 at 3:30 PM
And this
Geneva International Forum
Address:Rue de Varembé 1, CH-1211 Genève 20
Phone: +41-22-734-1252
Fax: +41-22-740 09 11
Activity summary
The activities of the Lucis Trust are dedicated to the establishment of the right human relations. The Trust was founded by Alice Bailey in 1922 and, drawing on the inspiration of her books, it promotes recognition and practice of the spiritual principles and values upon which a stable and interdependent world society may be based.
The tasks forming the basis of the Trust’s service activities include: to prepare humanity for the reappearance of Christ – to enlarge the work of triangles so that subjectively and etherically, light and goodwill may envelop the earth – and to promote ceaselessly the work of World Goodwill.
Themes/Evironment/Pollution
Pollution list:
Alp Action
Battelle Europe
Bellerive Foundation
Centre for Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Economic Commission for Europe
Global Resource Information Database
Green Cross International
International Civil Defence Organization
International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals
Ramsar Convention Bureau
Secretariat of the Basel Convention
Société Générale de Surveillance
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Meteorological Organization
And there is this old article:
What’s Really Going On? Trashing the Planet
Connie on May 16, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Man, if it don’t kill Natzis, an Ark it ain’t.
- The Cat
P.S. No gold, no scarabs, I mean come on, that thing looks like it’s made of pine for crying out loud.
MirCat on May 16, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Did you hear about the new technology for coal fired cars. Nice.
sonnyspats1 on May 16, 2007 at 5:42 PM
While I have no doubt whatsoever regarding climate change (I live in a part of the world that was under a mile of ice and a swamp before that), I certainly have some issues regarding the pseudo-science being used and the quasi-religious nature of Goracle’s adherents to promote their statist agenda. That there are counter-explanations and plenty of unsettled science should lead to more debate and study. It certainly should not lead to a revival of pagan mumbo-jumbo and the branding of skeptics as heretics.
There are days when I wonder if much of the objections I see by, well, people of faith aren’t based on science but a fear of competition. Judging by some of the reactions in this thread, I would almost say it’s spot on.
Krydor on May 16, 2007 at 6:38 PM
thirteen28 – excellent essay. Thanks for the post.
AtomicAmish on May 16, 2007 at 9:25 PM