Unfulfilled religiosity is liable to displace rationality with rote purity codes and magical thinking. No NPR, incantation of 165 words will not conjure our wil

Unfulfilled religiosity is liable to displace rationality with rote purity codes and magical thinking. No NPR, incantation of 165 words will not conjure our will to save the environment into existence. Understanding the root causes, the game theory behind multinational escalation of externalities and the logos behind this complex emergent phenomena will. Shame might be a pragmatic technology to bring individual people in line, but it can not steer planet scale collectives of people any more than it can steer our cars. In fact shame-politics stupefies people by asking them to relinquish their own rationality with the fear of painful non-conformity. It makes children out of adults. If there is a religious action to be taken, it is creating a reciprocal faith in rationality and virtuosity of the mature individuals, who can also trust that others will do the same.