The Religion Of Environmentalism, Modern religions

I want to post this without comment. I found it interesting and think you will too, whether it is agreed with or not. Due to copyright concerns, I am only posting the first few paragraphs, and then the link so if you are interested you can read the entire speech.

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/...es_quote05.html



Leo This is from the Official Site of Micheal Crichton http://www.crichton-official.com/

As one who majored in Conservation, it is nice to finally hear someone talking sense.

I have been out on sites where a person's house is falling into the ravine and they wanted us to fix it for them. Never did it enter their head to ask themselves why they built a house in an unstable setting. They wanted the view. Erosion and slippages couldn't possibly happen on their building site. Nature must of course respect the wishes of the property owner.

And as to the environmental predictions.... I will never forget two scientific studies crossing my desk in the same day back in the 80's. One stated emphatically fossil fuels were creating a greenhouse effect and we would all be swimming before we knew it from the glacial meltdowns. The other just as emphatically prediceted we would all freeze to death because the suns rays would no longer be able to effectively penetrate the atmospheric buildup.

"How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline? There's a simple answer: we must institute far more stringent requirements for what constitutes knowledge in the environmental realm."

AMEN - I felt this back in the 80's. Each new 'discovery' was treated as the saviour of the planet, when in fact, half of them were not much more than fads. I'm afraid it revist no-till farming 20 years later.

I cannot be called a "tree hugger" but I do believe that we have an obligation to care for our world and have respect for it. If we do not we will pay the price, as we already are in the midst of. This is after all "Mother Earth" and Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

My life philosophy has as one of its core concepts "the oneness of life and its environment". The concept is fairly simple: they go together. You can't have one without the other. It is a short step to consider: what you do to one you do to the other. Screw up the environment, and guess what that does to the life in it? This is one of those basic universal truths that cuts across the lines of different religious traditions.

Ahhhh, King of Jesters, I never cease to be impressed by your profound nature. It's cool having a relative who can actually think about something like this. I agree, it is a universal truth that cuts across the lines of different religious traditions.

Golly, looks like this thread sorta fizzled out. Oh well, I honestly thought it was pretty interesting. Just for the sake of trying to enliven things a little, here is another exerpt from Micheal Crichton's speech to the Commonwealth Club in Sept.

And again, here is the link for the entire speech.

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/...es_quote05.html


Leo

I would agree with Crichton that Enviromentalism has become a religeon to some who say don't bother me with the facts or what is really the best plan let's just do something.

I think it destroys their credibility to the thinking person.

Like Elspeth said one says Ice Age and another says Global Warming and their evidence it suspect at best for making their prediction.

Conservation as a science is important and we need to pay attention to our enviroment and living in harmony with it. But those who practice the religeon of Enviromentalism as described by Crichton have a different agenda than this.

I tend to believe that they have an agenda that has nothing to do with the enviroment because it is harder for me to believe that they can not see the fallacy of what they preach.

MIkel

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