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March 26, 2015
The environmental movement tying itself to personal virtue may have been stupid,
including (a) an obession with sin, (b) an eschatology (AGW), (c) irrational taboos (GM foods), (d) weekly observances of no weight other than as symbolic virtue signaling (residential recycling), and (d) fideistic refusal to consider evidence contrary to its doctrines. The rise of environmentalism perfectly tracks the fall in religious observance among elite whites in the U.S., because it’s binding to the same receptors. Eric Raymond @ Links 3/15: Linksmanship | Slate Star Codex
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 26, 2015 10:31 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Why have the last 3 winters here in fly over been increasingly colder and longer and the summers shorter and colder? My tomato plants don't like this shit and have went on strike demanding a green house, now who is going to pay for THAT????
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at March 26, 2015 1:13 PM
Jeepers, the rest of the word is just catching up. I wrote, "Environmentalist religion explained" in 2003 on a site no longer online, but republished on my present blog:
http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2008/05/environmentalist-religion-explained.html
And I was not the first by any means to see that the Cult of Green was a remapping of Augustinian orthodoxy.
-- Sensing
Posted by: plus.google.com/104841162830331053592 at March 26, 2015 2:35 PM
According to Gore, growing tomatoes in the taiga of Canada or Russia would be a mortal sin against Gaea. Can't have that.
It is better for you to bitch about you not being able to grow tomatoes in West Flatland; with that grousing, the Gorebot can still rain against AGW by pointing to how YOU screwed the pooch with your outdoor BBQ thus riling up the EPA.
That that and BOHICA.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at March 26, 2015 2:41 PM
@williamteach coined, "Climastrology"
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at March 26, 2015 5:43 PM
I didn't notice it was religion but almost 30 years ago I quit several orgs of various green stripes.
My son, a young man then, asked me why. I told him I wasn't comfortable dealing with perfect people who posed as moral saints. My limited mind just couldn't master the protocols.
I had also noticed that more and more organization money was going to lobbys or to political campaigns.
Posted by: Ken at March 26, 2015 5:47 PM