As i remind people yearly: Earth Day is Lenin's birthday! Need we know more? The whole environmentalism as a religion is exactly what the UN is counting on. Transition people from Christianity to Gaia worship (the temple to Gaia is in the UN building), then eventually to one world government worship. End of religion, but the world leaders will be the new Gods. That's what it is and always has been for the last couple decades. True environmentalist do not let the forest floor fall into a tinder box which will destroy the forest and animals in it. But environmental worshipers do.None of it is about the environment, it is about power. Look at the brainwashed blank expressions on those children, like the Stepford children.

That is absolutely true! This is what is being pushed in the public schools and has been since the early 70's!

This also fits Gorbechev's statement that says in essence: "In order to establish a world government, there will need to be established a world religion "Environmentalism/Gaia", a world economic system "European style Market Socialism" and a world form of government "United Nations - Federalism". All three are being put into place to the detriment of freedom.

Michael Crichton's State of Fear eloquently debunks the environmentalism myth. What is surprising is that he went into the writing of that book thinking that he was going to prove the case for environmentalism. Then he did his research and found that A = A.

One of the most renowned scientists/physicists alive today who isn't drinking the koolaid.
Freeman Dyson does compare the extremist belief to a religion and questions the computer modeling.
“They are very bad tools at predicting climate…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiKfWdXX...

Celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day

Yes, it is. It involves worship of the earth. Rand discussed it also: it regards man as sub-natural.

Under the Soviets, the state was the religion. It still is, but because of the disasters of the recent past in which the Russian people lost everything, not just once, but over and over again, the State-As-Religion fell out of favor. Since in reality, nothing has really changed, just a sort of veneer covering the corruption, a new religion was needed. Instead of wealthy commissars, they now have wealthy oligarchs and a government with a leader who rules with and iron fist. The environment has become a distraction that proves that they are good people by saving the earth. In the USA, Obama is using this same distraction in order to turn the populace away from failure after failure and scandal after scandal. giving us peasants something we can believe in, even if it does do things like destroying the coal industry and throwing thousands out of work.

"Earth Day". Founded by a psycho murderer on April 22, 1970 when he was a student. Later went on to kill his girlfriend and stuff her body into a trunk and put it in a closet in his apartment. Typical of the type who is most "religious" about the environment. Will do anything to stop the "planet abuse" except stop driving their ginormous SUVs and flying in Jumbo jets. All in all, an ignorant bunch of useful idiots.

Some other elements of religion in Earth worship: human sacrifice. After manufacturing phony evidence of the danger of DDT and getting this highly effective, safe insecticide banned, the result has been over a million deaths annually from malaria. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao are pikers compared to the African genocide inflicted by Rachel Carson.

I couldn't agree more.

Oh, goody! Let's celebrate the herding of humans into concentrated urban centers so that animals may rule the earth. And the fine for using your electricity after 2:00pm will result in public flogging with a pair of Birkenstocks. So keep your wicks trimmed. Don't want that hot wax to burn your hemp cloth shirt.

Great post. I expected one or more in the Gulch when Earth Day came along, and was not disappointed.

I first heard, indirectly, of "environmentalism" in 1968, when I was working in a grocery store part-time while attending what was, and still is, one of the furthest Left universities in America. A student came in and asked for "biodegradable" detergent. Both the manager, who happened to be with me, and I looked at him and said: "Huh?" A few months later I became for aware of "the Environment" as a "hot" topic among the more vocal extremist students (I guess you could say my "consciousness was raised").

Luckily I discovered Rand a short while later, so never drank the Kool-Aid, in fact quite the opposite.

So I've always seen Environmentalism as a religion, but it was nice to see someone as popular and influential as Crichton address it as such. (Although I thought in the second half he still seemed to acknowledge it a more of a "problem" than it really is.)

And what makes it a religion IMO (and these thoughts are certainly not original to me) is that it's a large number of true believers following a mass movement which has no scientific basic in reality, and never did. Plus, the crucial religious element of "fear" and dire consequences if we don't follow the advice of our dear leaders (sin, and thee shall burn forever in Hell). And, once again as others have pointed out, a huge call for "self-sacrifice". And finally, any dissent is treated by the faithful as true heresy. I'm glad the clip didn't end with Crichton burned at the stake.

I won't say much more, as so much has been said, but I've always looked at Environmentalism as the replacement for the Socialist religion, as it's failure in both theory and practice became increasingly hard to deny. Environmentalism is the new "global crisis" that we need to be protected from, and surprise, the UN is there to save us via a New World Order.

If you look, there are lots of actual real scientists out there debunking AGW, including former believers, even within the UN itself.

This is one video I like, as it is an actual debate between a "true believer" and a reasonable, well-spoken and informed climate change skeptic. Moderated by John Stossel, who I always find good.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/01/28/w...

Here in Northern New England we get only one crop of hay per field pre year. With 2-3 degrees warming we will get two crops and change the basis of agriculture dramatically for the better. Now if we could only learn to eat rocks.

Environmentalism is a mental illness not a religion.

I remember the burgeoning environmental movement in the late 60' and early 70's as the fever got whipped up to pass things like the Clean Air - Clean Water Acts, the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, etc - much of it signed into law by a Republican. As usual an initial valid concern got turned into a big government socialist agenda. I remember the Aberjona River flowed through my hometown. I used to fish for kibbies in that river and then started noticing that some had no eyes. Not just one fish, many. The water had oil slicks on the surface with grocery shopping baskets and automobile axles sticking out of the water. Right downtown.

So, when I went off to college in 1973 to major in Geology - a real science that is based on chemistry, physics, optics - hard traditional sciences - there was this science elective called Environmental Engineering. OK, we'll check it out. Turned out be a primer in Social Engineering instead. I was pretty angry. I didn't realize much at the time but did notice the railing against industrialization and the constant call for "national" initiatives, etc.

Environmentalist equals socialist in the meaning of today's global agenda politics. Rare is the discussion that a free society of individuals with private property rights, free markets with all the incentive to improve and produce, is the best societal organization for clean water, clean air, and productively "sustainable" land. Let alone "social justice".

I saw this in the west from the 1980's to the present with the federal efforts to get the ranchers off of the public lands. The 100 + years of settlement patterns of self reliance and production passed down through generations of ranchers was now - according to government environmental (social) "engineers" - destroying the pristine majesty of the magnificent open spaces of the west. Trampling wild flowers, driving off endangered species that have been there all along, befouling natural springs - even raising the dust that impairs the visibility at the Grand Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches - every aspect of their independent activity has come under attack by reams and reams of bogus studies of "ecosystems" by college spawned bureaucrats replete with federal grants, subsidies and revolving door connections with NGO's, Conservancy Trusts, alphabet agencies and the like.

I would say the traditional ranchers are the true environmentalists, but I would not insult them in such a fashion. They are the ones that watch the productivity of the land - gee - so that they can keep producing from that land, they are the ones that improved the springs, the flow of groundwater benefiting the stock and all kinds of wildlife. They are the ones that watched for the right time of seasons when cheat grass is still edible, moving the stock to stem it back and preventing late summer wildfires.

Now, with federal agencies having driven most of the ranchers off of the land or seriously reducing the AUM's, the public lands have become raging conflagrations under their "sustainable" management practices. I have personally known ranchers that when growing up in the 50's and learning how to round up stock, handle horses, irrigate crops, had never even seen a government bureaucrat. Now, they periodically have to go to town, to the BLM offices, to the FS offices, hat in hand, and grovel for their grazing "privileges" on the King's land. I heard one guy saying that getting up on those mornings to pay homage of feeling literally sick and knotted in the stomach and fearful for his livelihood.

Environmental equals social - in the worst meanings and intentions of those words.

Good youtube. Txs

In 1979, Theodore Sturgeon wrote a forward for "Image of The Beast" by Philip Jose Farmer in which he describes;
"There is a vast number of honestly simple-minded people who can, without hesitation, define: Pornography, science fiction, God, communism, right, freedom, evil, honorable peace, liberty, obscenity, law and order, love--and think, and act, and legislate, and sometimes burn, jail, and kill on the basis of their definitions. These are the Labelers, and they are without exception the most lethal and destructive force ever faced by any species on this or any other planet, and I shall tell you clearly and simply why." .....
"The lethal destructiveness inherent in Labelling lies in the fact that the Labeller, without exception, overlooks the most basic of all characteristic of everything in the universe--passage: that is to say, flux and change. If he stops and thinks (which is not his habit) the Labeller must concede that rocks change, and mountains; that the planets change, and the stars, and that they have not stopped because of the purely local and most minor phenomenon that he happens to be placing a Label on in this place at this point in time."
"Passage is most evident in what we call life than in any other area. It is not enough to say that living things change, one must go further and say that life is change. That which does not change is abhorrent to the most basic laws of the universe; that which does not change is not alive, and in the presence of that which does not change, life cannot exist."
"This is why the Labeller is lethal. He is the dead hand. His is the command, STOP! He is death's friend, life's enemy. He does not want, he cannot face, things as they really are---moving, flowing, changing; he wants them to stop."

Sturgeon goes on to explain why the Labeller does these things, but what I've quoted defines for me, quite perfectly, the religion of environmentalism, the environmentalist. He fears change, he wants to feel safe, he feels that if only everything was like yesterday (like yesterday being his image of yesterday) everything would be perfect. He doesn't realize in his simple, non-thinking beliefs that others have moved into the priest positions of his religion with more malevolent purpose, and are using him to further their goals of control and power over all. He sees a perfect, Eden like life of safety and love. He's become pro-death and anti-life.

I have a good friend who's wife is an PhD climatologist. He has agreed to provide me clear evidence of causality. I look forward to this critical review. Will pass anything I learn on.

Environmentalism is ANTI-MAN.

And just a little monkey wrench to completely jam the whole "Global Warming" bs, it's SNOWING IN THE TOWN WHERE I LIVE. Right now, this very minute as I write this... Gotta love NW CT in the "spring"!!

His "anthropological" usage of the word religion is so weak that it does not add much to any discussion. If you listen to his answer in the first half, he could classify almost anything as a religion, including the pro-freedom movement.
He is a smart guy with words, and it seems like he is aiming to dismiss them by calling them a religion. That has to infuriate anyone with genuine religious beliefs.