Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Environmentalism the New Religion?

I do not take a hard stand on the issue on environmentalism, but this is an interesting perspective:

8 comments:

Douglas Porter said...

Garbage. By his argument you could call anything that people follow without conclusive evidence religion. His argument is therefore not an argument per se, but a smear campaign disguised as a rational argument.

Josh said...

aren't most things people follow without conclusive evidence religious-like?

Blueskyboris said...
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Douglas Porter said...

Basically. Even science itself has elements of this phenomena. It doesn't, however, discredit environmentalism. That can only be discredited on a proposition by proposition basis.

Josh said...

I think he's attacking the dogma of main stream leaders of the environmentalist movement. Not people like Mom and Dad who are growing organic vegetables and compost, but those that are pushing policy based on their knowledge of the environment.

Its kind of like, if I don't agree with Al Gore, and I have credible evidence to support my position, there is a portion of people within the environmentalist movement who would attack me simply because I disagree, without accepting the credible evidence.

This is what I took from it anyway.

Douglas Porter said...

That is propaganda.

Josh said...

what is propaganda?

Douglas Porter said...

That entire video.