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The efforts of most environmentalists become a lot easier to comprehend if you think of environmentalism and global warming as a religion.
by newt0311 18y ago
The efforts of most environmentalists become a lot easier to comprehend if you think of environmentalism and global warming as a religion.
- netcan 18y agoI think this is an inevitable consequence of politicisation. Economics, for example is much more of a religion in countries (like the US) where the cold war had that sort of a political impact. In some places, history is more of a religion.
- davidw 18y agoI don't know... I grew up in Oregon, and used to ride my mountain bike around in places like this: http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.939069,-123.437147&spn=0.038628,0.11158&t=h&z=14 http://local.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.939069,-123.43714... and as a consequence am quite willing to believe that people can have far ranging, destructive consequences, and am willing to consider the fact that current environmental policy may do a poor job of dealing with certain negative externalities. Posts like this one, though, are yet more evidence of why these discussions are pointless. "Environmentalism is a religion" hah! Good one! In one snarky sentence, you get to call a broad and diverse movement (which ranges from people who are a bit bonkers to plenty of very reasonable people) a bunch of illogical doodyheads. Gee, if only more people would tell them this, maybe they'd see the light.