I've thought that before too... Actually, maybe I'm being a little bit too hard on the greens. The thing is: human beings respond to hygiene problems by creati

I've thought that before too... Actually, maybe I'm being a little bit too hard on the greens. The thing is: human beings respond to hygiene problems by creating religions with moralistic prohibitions. By the 50s, pollution had started to get bad. It's basically a hygiene problem. So we made up a religion. We did the same thing when we figured out that having sex with too many people made it hurt when you pee. For some reason, we need this. Rational arguments are not good enough. Arguments from basic self-interest are not good enough. Having the air smell like burning tires and having rising cancer rates is not good enough. We can't change group behaviors without cults.