Environmentalism is the New Religion (speech video)

If environmentalism is now a form of a religion, then I declare idiocy to be a form of intellect.

 

You can find extremists and kooks on any side of any issue. Sure there are environmentalist kooks hugging trees just as there are anti-environmental kooks, like arsonists, burning trees. But to say that environmentalism is a religion is just stupid. Environmentalism has none of the hallmarks of a religion--priests, deities, creation myths, supernatural miracles, observance of rituals, and a moral code.

 

It is not clear to me. Or to the many millions of environmentalists that practice a true religion.

Who is its diety? Where is it's priestly hierarchy? What are its rituals? Some dogma and lore maybe, but those are not exclusively religious practices. Heresy?--give me a break.

You base your perception on stereotypes of the kookiest tree-huggers that you can imagine, but the core of the environmental movement is based in hard science and scientists are some of the least religious people on the planet. The bulk of environmentalists are hunters who support groups like Duck's Unlimited, outdoorsmen who support the Sierra Club, philanthropists who support The Nature Conservancy, and other normal middle class people from every walk of life. They just don't want to see the earth rush to a future of pollution and blight.

I seriously question the sensibility and motives of anybody who doesn't want a clean environment.

Bullchit. Try me.

 

As I mentioned before there are some kooks to be found in any group. But you seem to lump all environmentalists as kooks and religious nuts which is simply absurd.

Denial of global warming, as we have found on the many threads here, is almost always for political reasons, not scientific ones. Environmental scientists are in consensus about that issue, but those that disagree anyway, having no science to stand on, tend to attempt to ridicule and discredit those scientists by painting them with "kook" brushes and trying to make it sound like all environmentalists are whacko tree huggers. What hogwash.

This "Environmentalism is a new religion thing" is just another right-wing political stunt, widely aped in all the conservative blogs. It is another lame attempt to make scientists look like loonies just because the right-wingers cannot offer enough provable facts to refute the issue scientifically.

Worse, you try to paint professional environmental scientists who have forgotten more than you will ever know about the environment as a "muslim-like priestly hierarchy" who stone disbelievers. My friend, you understand nothing about the scientific method if you actually believe that.

Have you read some of the global warming threads around here? We have argued many times on the subject and I have offered tons of scientific evidence that the anti-environmentalists simply ignore. They offer back rhetoric.

The tree-huggers do not represent all environmentalists. Environmentalism is NOT a religion any more than right-wing survivalists, militias, and terrorist bombers are. They are all just extremists who do not represent the majority.

 

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The majority of opinion:

There are always some dissenting scientific voices, which is healthy, but the overwhelming majority of Climatologists have proven that global warming is real.

This is untrue. Prove it. I challenge you.

The IPCC is the international authority on climate change with thousands of the top experts in the field. Look it up. Be surprised.

The scientific consensus on global warming is indisputable. About twice a year around here, somebody waves an article by a politician or a dissenting scientist disputing global warming and it is hailed a proof that the preponderance of scientific evidence gathered over the past few decades is wrong! It just don't work that way.

This is complete and utter BS. I know you are a newbie, but there are a dozen or so global warming threads already in FSA alone--long threads--hotly debated threads-- do a search and find out just how wrong you are.

The notion that environmentalists don't want debate or scientific study is completely absurd. I can cite them until the cows come home.

Backwards as usual. :insane:

I've worked for decades in Environmental Science and know many of the top climatologists in the field. They are not in "movements" nor do they have extreme political agendas. They do research and publish their findings in the journals where they withstand scientific scrutiny. Politics has nothing to do with it. No so for the doubters.