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.

- 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.

Via Tim Blair, “Tree weds tree in Orissa village”; more green religion here…….

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

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.

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.“

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?…

No, but close. It’s the religion of Greenpeace.

Bryan on May 16, 2007 at 1:37 PM

Does that mean he’s the “prophet”?

mojowire on May 16, 2007 at 1:27 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. ;)

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.

Global Marshall Plan

Anyone know of a good stock buy one could make to profit a bit from this?

You are going to need it to offset the massive increase in taxes and penalties that are sure to follow.

I see it as a new wave of communism.

Uh, yeah. It’s absolutely just communism wrapped in a new name… just like everything else the left does.

In 1999 visual artists Cameron Davis and Sally Linder came together with a small group of artists in the Vermont USA studio of Janet Fredericks to share their common sorrows about the state of the world. Out of their questioning and desire to promote global healing arose a collaborative idea. As artists they recognized that art is a process that promotes healing and that changes in awareness precede meaningful action. Establishing a temenos, a magical sacred circle where special rules apply and extraordinary events inevitably occur,

I garan-gawddang-tee that not a SINGLE one of them can pass a drug test.