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Question by Isa: Does the green movement serve as a religion of sorts to some people?
I consider myself an environmentalist, and someone who cares quite a bit about the future and about sustainability, but I frequently find myself politically at odds with people who seem convinced, with almost a religious dogma, that the ideal way for things to be is the way they are found in nature (usually defined as environment untouched by humans).
For instance, I acknowledge and am concerned about carbon emissions and their eventual impact on global temperatures. But proposals to construct something akin to a global thermostat, or to develop ways to chemically remove carbon from the atmosphere are met as blasphemy – apparently, the canon response is to flee back to the days before the Industrial Revolution, focusing on emitting carbon less instead of taking control of its consequences. Like religion, when you bring up the problem, there seems to be more of a focus on repentance than solutions; talking about actually SOLVING the problem tends to flare tempers.
Another example is the entire ‘organics’ movement, which is a movement that more or less flatly states that technology is evil when it comes to agriculture. We live in an age where the limits of arable land, clean water and crop disease are quickly being surmounted by the development of crops that are able to grow in more varied climates and fend off pests with less reliance on sprayed pesticides. But they’re regarded as evil – opponents are certain that they’ll give you cancer, or something, and the fact that they may spread their seeds into other crops is regarded as self-explanatorily scary – as if we’re all supposed to be outraged that the “natural” crop will be more difficult to isolate as time goes on.
Ultimately, the mentality among some ‘green movement’ types (which I distinguish from ‘environmentalists,’ which would be people who actually care about a sustainable environment as opposed to some kind of preservation of nature) is very similar to many religious dogmas: change and technology bad, “the old days” good; humans bad, nature good. Do you think some people use the green movement as sort of a surrogate religion?
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I’d say yes, although nearly any ideal can serve to be a religion if its followers become zealots.
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September 4, 2013 at 3:40 am
I think they’re promoting anti-capitalism more than anything. That’s why the founder of Green Peace left.
Creation Crusher 3000
September 4, 2013 at 4:06 am
For some people yes but I know a group at my church and town that vote for the Canadian Green Party, all Christians all very concernd about the enviroment
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James W
September 4, 2013 at 4:30 am
It is possible that they do, because much of the New Age religion is all about Mother Earth, rather than trusting in what God it’s creator( promised )us after the flood.
Gen 8:21,22
Then the Lord said in His Heart, I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the Imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
22: “WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS, SEED-TIME AND HARVEST, COLD AND HEAT, WINTER AND SUMMER, AND DAY AND NIGHT SHALL NOT CEASE.”
This is meant for us in this day and time , as well as for Noah and all who began again after the flood.
God controls when the earth will no longer remain, not man, or anything man may think, or do.
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sunshine
September 4, 2013 at 5:01 am
Radical Environmentalism is the new Paganism! Worship the Creation rather than the Creator! They even have a deity: Gaia (mother earth) and a high priest: Al Gore
Many people including myself believe in having a clean environment but we are talking here of a much more radical viewpoint.
Believer
September 4, 2013 at 5:31 am