Many of us already suspect that environmentalism is not science based on rational facts but religion based on many myth. This great article in Financial Times confirms this view and urges business leaders to treat environmentalism as they would treat other religions. The author makes some brilliant points that are absolutely spot on:
Environmentalism now fulfils for many people the widespread longing for simple, all-encompassing narratives. Environmentalism offers an alternative account of the natural world to the religious and an alternative anti-capitalist account of the political world to the Marxist. The rise of environmentalism parallels in time and place the decline of religion and of socialism.
Christians look to the Second Coming, Marxists to the collapse of capitalism, with the same mixture of fear and longing.
This explains why environmentalism is preached with religion zeal of the yesteryear's missionaries and most popular amongst the inner city left-wing types.
Environmentalism at first lacked a persuasive Apocalypse myth. The litany of environmental degradation had to confront the manifest fact that many aspects of the environment were steadily improving, with cleaner air, rivers and seashores. The discovery of global warming filled a gap in the canon. That is why environmentalists attach so much importance to the assertion not just that the world is warming up, which is plainly true, but that this warming is our fault, which is less plainly true.
The author is also spot on in assertion that environmentalists are not actually interested in meaningful and rational solutions to global warming choosing to preoccupy themselves instead with meaningless symbolic rituals.
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